- May (Thurs).
Nasty, vicious, Netscape 4 document.write bug
There are a number of very subtle bugs that the javascript programmer can encounter when using document.write() to produce dynamically generated HTML. A search on google for "netscape document.write bug" will product 15 pages worth of links on the subject.I had the misfortune to encounter a new one: for reasons as yet unknown, using many document.write()s to generate HTML in the midst of a page, eventually froze the browser completely. (Same results on Windows, Mac, and Solaris Netscape 4.x browsers!)
The good news is that I could work around the problem by accumulating the text in a string, and displaying it in a single document.write call; also for reasons unknown, that worked just fine.
E.g., something like the text below, instead of many document.write()s.
<html> <body> <script language="javascript"> var docstr = ""; function dw (str) { docstr += str; } dw ('<h1>hello, world</h1>'); dw ('Write something<br>'); dw ('Write something else<br>'); ... document.write (docstr); </script> </body> </html>