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Centralize event handling with XBL

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by maryweilage

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by mwaser

Why should we climb yet another learning curve for a product that has less than 1 percent of the market (up to 0.5 percent from 0.3 percent!)? If this were an exactly implemented W3C standard, it would be one thing but Netscape is once again going it's own way (yes, yes, M$ does the same thing, but they have the critical mass of market share to get away with it).

by bpatin

I will keep this for future reference. It is not presently useable, because so few clients have upgraded their browsers to the required level.

A large block of my most important government clients have adopted Netscape 4.7 as their standard. I also like alternatives to Microsoft. But if the Mozilla/Netscape people want to do us a favor, and gain our favor, they either have to implement the same "features" as IE or follow an official standard that we can all depend on.

by jgough

It didn't work in Netscape 7. I did not try 6. The input box didn't even show up until I removed the reference to cash.css.

by cstevens

There are two problems with the example as given:

1) Doesn't work in Netscape 6.x +. As written, you will get a screen without input box. To fix this, change cash.xml:

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