[Javascript] accessing a form element

[Håkan Magnusson]

The exaggaration is in your personal view of MSDN, but sure, we are all 
free to think whatever we wish. I've always found Microsofts resources 
very illogical, and their "tips" on how to work around bugs in their 
software are truly laughable. Internet Explorer can't handle too many 
dynamic images loading. Microsofts solution, to all the developers out 
there who want to support their software? Don't use dynamic images.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;269802

And, then, to state that Microsoft should be responsible for most of the 
languages and techniques described on the web is really exaggarating it. 
You state this by saying that MSDN is the most comprehensive collection 
of Developer information on the net. I'm a developer in many areas of 
software and the internet, and I can't find anything I need on MSDN. I 
didn't find any docs covereing PostGreSQL. No PHP language overview. No 
Java tutorial.

So maybe you did mean Microsoft propriety documentation after all, like 
I stated in my earlier mail? And maybe you can imagine that even though 
Microsoft do support "HTML" and "JavaScript" in some of their products, 
their implementation is not necessarely (very rarely) the standard, or 
even the correct one. If you're about to start working with XML in a 
non-Windows environment and you're resource for that is MSDN, you are 
going to get fired very soon.

Finally, far, far from all developers ever use Microsofts products. For 
those developers, MSDN is just a slow, bloated pile of non-standardised 
crap. Being one of those developers, developing for Microsoft products 
only when absolutely necessary, I will never ever think that MSDN is the 
most comprehensive collection of developer information on the net.

Regards,
H

Chris T wrote:

> Maybe I should clarify it:  Most comprehensive collection of Developer
> information on the Net. Without a doubt. There's no exaggeration in that
> statement.
> 
> Microsoft is great. I watch their webcasts all the time too:
> http://microsoft.com/webcasts
> 
> Nobody else is putting as much quality content on the web to help
> developers.  Even if it is being used to benefit them, it's still an
> impressive collection.
> 
> Chris Tifer
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Håkan Magnusson" <hakan at backbase.com>
> To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 11:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [Javascript] accessing a form element
> 
> 
> Isn't that overexaggarating it a bit? Perhaps the most comprehensive
> collection of information on the net... on Microsoft proprietary issues.
> ;) On a sidenote, the left navigation doesn't show up correctly in
> Mozilla, so I guess that if you want to access Microsofts view of
> things, you'll need to use their browser.
> 
> Regards,
> H
> 
> Chris T wrote:
> 
> 
>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library
>>
>>Click on Web Development | HTML and Dynamic HTML | SDK Documentation |
>>Reference and you'll have a list of everything you need.
>>
>>I consider this to be by far the most comprehensive collection of
>>information on the Net.
>>
>>Chris Tifer
>>http://emailajoke.com
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Håkan Magnusson" <hakan at backbase.com>
>>To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
>>Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 10:10 AM
>>Subject: Re: [Javascript] accessing a form element
>>
>>
>>I've never liked MSDN's way of "organizing", meaning I can't find squat
>>on their site, but someone else here can probably tell you where their
>>JavaScript-reference is.
>>
>>
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