[thelist] RE: Most standards compliant browser?

[.jeff]

ppk,

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> From: Peter-Paul Koch
>
> I've only done research for the W3C DOM and my
> conclusion must be that Netscape is in that area far
> more standards supporting than IE. See
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/index.html?version5.html
> for the browser compatibility table.
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in all fairness, you *really* should label the "Explorer 5+ Windows" column
as "Explorer 5 Windows", "Explorer 5.5 Windows", and "Explorer 6 Windows".
as it is now it's difficult to separate the "from ie6" as conditional yes's
when tabulating who "won" the standards compliance battle.

beyond dom level 1, there are certain behaviors with regard to interaction
with certain style properties that work in some browsers and fail miserably
in others.  take the display property, for example.  it works fine on
practically any html object when toggling between "block" and "none" in
ie5+, reflowing the document properly to fit the toggled content.  however,
try changing the display property on a table row or cell in nn6 and watch
everything fall apart.  nn6 may have support for more of the esoteric
methods and properties, but if it can't even support some basic dhtml
operations that are likely to be used on a regular basis by your casual
dhtml scripter, then who's really the winner?

just my 2¢,

.jeff

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