A plug (not plugin) for opera

[Joel Hammer]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 09:28:25AM -0400, Net Llama! wrote:
> Its only good if you want all browsers to handle the highly-nonstandard
> javascript in the same way as IE.  Since there is no standard, there is no
> 'right' way to do it.

I think there are right ways and wrong ways to write javascript. I am
using only javascript which is supposed to be standard, and avoiding
anything which is unique to one browser or another.

And, I think that as much as some people may hate the idea, MS is the
de facto standard in browsers. Not because it is so good, but because
it is universal; so, one might as well write to it in javascript. It
would be great if all browser designers emulated IE, then, we would all be
compatible and web designers wouldn't have a nightmare on their hands.
I have noticed that the websites I looked at recently do no have much
in the way of specific coding for non IE browsers. The browser war is
pretty much over. Either be IE compatible or die.

Let's not forget that IBM created the PC revolution with its PC, simply
by providing a standard which everyone followed. As I recall, IBM was
severely punished when it tried to walk away from its own standards.
(Microchannel, wasn't it?)
Joel