[thelist] javascript:// :is it necessary?

Ornstein, Ian IanOrnstein at NC.SLR.com
Thu Jun 28 13:10:15 CDT 2001


-----Original Message-----
From: James Aylard [mailto:webmaster at equilon-mrc.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 12:31 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] javascript:// :is it necessary?

    Well, technically, it depends. Netscape traditionally lumped all manner
of browser objects, properties, and methods into its JavaScript reference
along with true scripting objects, properties, and methods such as Date,
getDate(), etc. Microsoft has/have always segregated browser-related
features into a document object model separate from the scripting language.
    Essentially, Microsoft's basic approach won out, as many aspects of its
document object model are standardized in the W3C's DOM, and the core of the
JavaScript language are segregated and standardized in ECMA's ECMAScript.
Netscape 6 honors this new order.

     And when I went looking at the help file for MS JScript things
were missing...(that existed in the Netscape help file)
only to be found under DHTMl on the MS website.




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