The present column adapts Explorer to the Navigator script logic. The Explorer purists might complain that Explorer could achieve the technique differently, and perhaps more efficiently. That is probably true. As you proceed through the column, you will notice that the great majority of the functions we created for Navigator remain unchanged for the cross-browser version. This is due to our use of custom methods for objects.
Most pages simply refresh our understanding of the functions discussed last column.
We do not discuss them in detail again. We do, however, delve with detail into browser differences, eg. padding and background color, the uniqueness of the Explorer event model, and Explorer properties and methods making their first appearance in these columns. Before we begin, a short refresher regarding menu concepts and vocabulary. A menu is the full collection of related items and links. It contains the items, making it the item container .