JavaScript in Opera Browser

[Sparhawk]

The file in question:
http://connect4.sparhawkdownloads.com/16i.html

Does anyone know how to handle JavaScript in the Opera Browser (http://www.opera.com)?

The game runs perfectly in Internet Explorer 4.x, 5.x, 6.x and Netscape 4.7x and 6.x and Mozilla 1.0. It only runs partially in Opera.

The question is in line #1112.
The problem: You can click on the 'Play Connect Four!' button.
This brings up the game board. The game board is then not clickable. Each square on the gameboard should be clickable (try the game in IE).

I even tried bypassing the first page, skipping right to the gameboard. If I try this, the gameboard can be clicked once (and the game plays properly for one full turn). Then it is no longer clickable.

Does anyone know how to get around this problem in Opera? It's the only major browser the game isn't yet compatible with.

Sparhawk

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[rainbore]

I don't know the answer to your question, but I can point you to some resources that will probably help you.

The first is:

http://developer.netscape.com/index.html?cp=tectdpDEV

which is Netscape's Developer Support site. They have a lot of information on cross-browser support including a library of JavaScript code that gives a consistant API to most common DHTML functions. I wouldn't suggest you re-write your code to support this library, but you could search for "document.write" which would be the IE support, and then see how that function gets executed for Opera.

Another intersting site is www.cross-browser.com. They have some good information as well as some sample code.

Good luck!

Richard L. Trethewey
www.rainbo.net