- From: Dimitris Dimitriadis <dimitris@ontologicon.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:51:41 +0100
- To: "Manos Batsis" <m.batsis@bsnet.gr>
- Cc: "Curt Arnold" <carnold@houston.rr.com>, <www-dom-ts@w3.org>
Manos,
any help in the DOM TS is appreciated, we are expecting to ship an
updated version of the DOM Level 1 TS in about a month since we will
have some HTMl tests to work with. Your work will be appreciated.
/Dimitris
On Friday, February 22, 2002, at 09:09 , Manos Batsis wrote:
>
>
>> From: Curt Arnold [mailto:carnold@houston.rr.com]
>
>>> 1. Browser sniffing -- it seems that the sniffing is not elaborate
>>> enough, makes Mozille, for example, run code with calls to
>> an ActiveX
>>> object.
>>
>> I'll admit that it isn't elaborate, but under what scenario
>> does Mozilla run
>> an ActiveX object?
>
> IE programmatically implements DOM Documents as ActiveX objects. So, I
> guess some of the test that require this, use (in JavaScript)
>
> var myDomDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLDOM");
>
> You may encounter an msxml version_dependent_ProgId like
> Msxml2.XMLDOM.4.0. The above is IE specific. Mozilla instead uses the
> factory style (as DOM Level 2 likes it):
>
> var myDomDoc = document.implementation.createDocument("", "", null);
>
> Anyway, it should be something like the above situation: need of vendor
> dependent code and lack of browser sniffing.
>
> I'd be happy to give a hand fixing this if you pass it on.
>
> Manos
>
>
>
Received on Friday, 22 February 2002 05:50:50 UTC