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X-Objects: Clipping

Copy found at Wayback Machine archive. Clipping in the earlier releases of Mozilla and with Navigator 6.0 followed the CSS 2.0 release specification. Clipping boundaries are set at “0” for all four sides of the rectangle containing the content — to clip, you would offset the values, using positive numbers only. This differed from the […]

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X-Objects: Events

Copy found at Wayback Machine Archive. Event handling is pretty straight forward for all three impacted browsers (or browser object models). Events can be handled using two different techniques: through event handlers attached to HTML elements, or through event capturing. Navigator 4.x, IE, and Mozilla/Navigator 6.x all support both types of event handling, though the […]

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X-Objects: Events

Copy found at Wayback Machine Archive. Event handling is pretty straight forward for all three impacted browsers (or browser object models). Events can be handled using two different techniques: through event handlers attached to HTML elements, or through event capturing. Navigator 4.x, IE, and Mozilla/Navigator 6.x all support both types of event handling, though the […]

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X-Objects: HTML Replacement

Copy found at Wayback Machine Archive. HTML Replacement is functionality to replace the contents of an HTML tag. The contents could be the element’s data or could consist of one or more embedded HTML elements. Internet Explorer has four proprietary methods to replace the contents of an HTML tag: innerHTML to replace the contents with new HTML […]

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X-Objects: Layering and Z-Order

Copy found at Wayback Machine archive. Internet Explorer 6.x differs from IE 5.x in one very important area: In IE 6.0 and up, units must be specified with all CSS styles that take units, if you use some combination of CSS positional attributes — what combination, exactly, I haven’t been able to figure out yet. […]