[Javascript] changing graphics in new window

[Håkan Magnusson]

Well, it is fairly standards compliant, if you measure it by where we 
were four years ago and be a bit nice about it. Microsoft did however 
take the decision not to upgrade Internet Explorer until the release of 
Longhorn, making the current implementation of for example CSS very 
limited, compared to what we "should" be able to do today.

Limitations or anomalities include box model control, flawed handling of 
floating- and relatively positioned items, NO png support (promised by 
Microsoft in '97) unless you use an HTC-file, in which case you still 
can't use PNG for background images. Events are not handled correctly 
(moving your mouse over elements positioned in a certain way without 
specified width/heights will not trigger the event), there's a well 
known bug that makes IE go into an (almost) infinite stall when you try 
to load too many dynamic images at once (test case included in case 
someone doubt this, run the example on a web server, not locally), poor 
mime type support - the list can be made long.

This is of course "normal" bugs and lack of functionality for any 
software that is not completely finished, the only abnormal thing about 
it is that Microsoft is doing nothing to correct them.

Regards,
H

Chris T wrote:

> I'm interested in where you consider it to lack in adhering to adopted
> standards. Of course there will be something that might not be up to specs,
> but to say that it's not very compliant, it sounds like I'm not keeping up
> to standards myself and I'd like to know what I should begin looking out
> for.
> 
> Chris Tifer
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Håkan Magnusson" <hakan at backbase.com>
> To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 6:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [Javascript] changing graphics in new window
> 
> 
> 
>>My guess is that since IE6 is (nowadays) not a very standards compliant
>>nor heavily updated browser
> 
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