Demo #1: Visibility v Display

There are two similar features demonstrated at the very top of this page. An object can have an visibility attribute in both IE and Netscape Navigator. In IE, however it can also have a display attribute. Can you detect the difference by experimentation?

Demo #2: Fading Scroller

In the middle of the screen you will see a scroller I downloaded from dynamic drive.

Demo #3: An IE Only Collapsible Outline

This is an example of a collapsible outline generated my Microsoft FrontPage 2000. It is initially collapsed.

Unfortunately, this code generated by Frontpage only works with IE and not Netscape! What a drag.

Try this code out by clicking on the list elements and watch it expand. Use right mouse click to examine the source and observe that this is little to type to implement this collapsible outline.

Now if Microsoft could only get their act together and make their products generate DHTML code that is compatible with the competition so we could have browser independent web pages! I would not hold my breath. Contrary to common opinion, it is possible to implement collapsible outlines that work with both browsers. In fact, it would be a prime application for XML. Stay tuned for a XML/Netscape demonstration of collapsible outlines.

For a better demonstration of collapsible outlines that even work with Netscape 4.7, see some sample course outlines.