A plug (not plugin) for opera

[Tim Wunder]

 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154589
There's a lively debate on this bug regarding emulating document.all and other 
IE-only DOMs. The bug is interesting in that someone has coded a fix, but it 
is unlikely to get implemented, and rightly so. You can't spend upwards of 4 
years coding a cross-platform stanards-based browser only to give in to the 
"MSIE owns the browser market so we might as well give in" crowd.
It is possible, however, that the code may get implemented as an add-on module 
to Mozilla. Only time will tell.
Regards, 
Tim

On Wednesday 24 July 2002 05:15 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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
>
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