Netscape 8 blues starting...
Remember my recent blog entry about Netscape 8 excitement???
Remember I told you that the good news was that you can switch to IE engine with a click from within Netscape 8?
Well… here is the first bad news:
- Go find a site with a textarea control to fill in.
- Then switch Netscape to use the IE engine.
- Try to enter text in the textarea field. While doing that, try
switching the active language (from Greek to English in my case). You
know; by pressing Alt-Shift.
- Well, there goes the focus out of the control! Unless you
pick up the mouse and move the focus back in, you will not be able to
continue typing from where you left off.
The “bug” does not appear in textboxes (<input type=text>). Just textareas (<textarea></textarea>)….
Try to participate on a forum (i.e: a CS based forum), where
you need toy change language frequently while you are typing… Hopeless…
Now I am wondering… Who’s “bug” is this Netscape’s or IE’s engine's???
We ‘ll see…
There are also a number of other issues I ran into from time to time
(most related to IE engine's usage by Netscape. For instance try to hit
the back button to return to a page with Greek Encoding. Page encoding
does not always get applied resulting in an unreadable page you need to
refresh. Probably this does not have to do with ISO-8859-7 (Greek) or
Windows-1253 (Greek also) encodings only.
So far, although cool, the ability of Netscape 8 to try to function
like IE (I suppose by using the browser control) is not that useful all
the time...
