Let's take for example the Doc Dialer from Column 57. Here is the SPAN element:

<SPAN ID="foundSoFar" STYLE="position: absolute; border: 2px buttonface solid; width: 250"></SPAN>

The event handler in Netscape should be:

onload = start();

And the function start calls another function:

function start() {
  outputStringToDisplay(welcomeStr);
}

And this function does the update:

function outputStringToDisplay(str) {
  if (nameCode == 2) { // netscape
    with (document.foundSoFar.document) {
      open();
      write(str);
      close();
    }
  } 
  else {
    document.all.foundSoFar.innerHTML = str;
  }
}

Learn more about incompatibilities between the browser in Column 6, Browser Compatibility.

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