- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 22:53:23 -0000
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
"David Woolley" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> > > It's DOM 0 you need and all browsers have implemented it pretty much the > > same, so look for documentation that you find friendly. > > Although this will cover a fair amount, a lot of pages will use the > Netscape or IE specific bits, and some more recent ones will even use > W3C's DOM1 (which works on IE5, although a lot of authors are probably > not aware of this, as they treat NS6 as the special case and continue to > use document.all for IE5). Using document.all has some very sensible arguments, it's supported by all capable browsers bar Netscape including iCab, IceStorm, Konquerer, Opera, and IE4 a huge number. and with appropriate object detection can cause no errors, the arguments (which I support) for using DOM1 are purely standards based rather than any expectation of working for the most users. In any case as using W3's DOM still requires using proprietary the requirement to use standards is slightly flawed. > Pages that come up completely blank often are > doing a test to decide whether to use the IE or NS4 proprietory features. Yes, but mapping the location object to links in the page would solve that, even give you a choice, no need to implement any of those features. Jim.
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