Despite the fact that one of xanga's most distinguished coding gurus (seanmeister) has a pronounced browser preference for Mozilla (and its variants: Netscape 7, Phoenix 0.5, etc.), Internet Explorer (5.x and 6.0) still reigns supreme as king upon the xanga-browsing hill:

Xanga is optimized for use on a PC using Internet Explorer 5.0.

Xanga Premium xTools is optimized for the Internet Explorer browser on PCs. The PC Internet Explorer software lets us do some neat things that Netscape and even Macintosh Internet Explorer browsers simply do not support.

  --the XangaTeam

Another area where Internet Explorer provides functionality that Mozilla doesn't is in displaying scriptlets that are included within a web page.  What's a scriptlet?  Just a web-ready DHTML page that provides for various application controls.  But one big function it enables is the inclusion of other-sourced URLs within the xanga post.  Think of this as displaying external, already-made, non-xanga content within the xanga post.

My post below from Saturday is such a scriptlet-include.  If you can't see it, it's likely that your either using a browser other than Internet Explorer and/or your security settings are too high and/or your browser isn't permitting java display. 

Another example of this include-scripting was my "Best Blog of 2002" post where the external, already-made, non-xanga content within my xanga post was your xanga post! 

Yet another current example from another xanga user is woodnymph's 'virtual sketch' utilizing the same external java drawing/handwriting/emailing applet that I used for my Saturday post.

The coding is simple and straightforward.  Two variants are displayed below: the first one displays a window without a scrollbar; the second one provides for a right-side scrollbar.

1:</p> <p><OBJECT id=Scriptlet1 type=text/x-scriptlet height=500 width=650><PARAM NAME="Scrollbar" VALUE="0"><PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="http://www.eigelb.at/HP/Links/Handwriting2_1/Show/Show.php?IDA=233734651024"></OBJECT></p> <p>or</p> <p>2:</p> <p><OBJECT id=Scriptlet1 type=text/x-scriptlet height=500 width=650><PARAM NAME="Scrollbar" VALUE="-1"><PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="http://www.eigelb.at/HP/Links/Handwriting2_1/Show/Show.php?IDA=233734651024"></OBJECT><br />

To utilize either of these:

1) You must paste one (include everything from the beginning OBJECT tag to the ending OBJECT tag) of them into your xTools with the 'Edit HTML' box in xTools first checked.</p> <p>2) You can change the 'id= ' name to anything you want or leave it as is.</p> <p>3) The current 'height= " and 'width= ' are optimized for my page for the Saturday display. You can vary these to match your specific needs. But avoid using '%s', i.e., 'width=60%', in place of absolute pixel specifications as the resulting display on the 'comment page' will be hideously foreshortened.</p> <p>4) The "Scrollbar" VALUE="0" provides no scroll bar while the "Scrollbar" VALUE="-1" provides a scrollbar.</p> <p>5) The "URL" VALUE=" " is where you place the URL reference of the web page you want to include. Make sure to include the http://... between the double-quotes (double-check if you cut and paste because sometimes the double-quotes 'disappear')! Also, never ever include your own private page (http://www.xanga.com/private/home.aspx) for this will create a recursive effect that will send your browser into an infinite oblivion of intractable looping (Believe me, you do not want to try this.)

There it is.  But remember: Mozilla-browser users won't see your display.  So either you just cut them short or feed them some text in addition to this OBJECT-scriplet to allay their sense of 'blindness'.