Q132 Is there a maximum string length?

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Q132 Is there a maximum string length?

Netscape 2 (16bit at least) has problems when parsing the html doc, when it discovers long strings.

The code in the infamous scrollit_r21 function addresses this. You'll notice that the author used smaller strings m1, m2, etc, b4 assigning the full string msg=m1+m2 etc.

As a general rule, keep the complete line of script below 256 chars if you intend your scripts to work with all browsers.