On 11/15/2008 09:40 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
Standardizing an MSIE property that works differently than in MSIE creates compatibility problems on the web. A better alternative would be to use a different property name.
Who is supposed to use the better name here? Mozilla added undetectable document.all support to allow sites that didn't bother testing if the current browser was IE (e.g. via |if (document.all)| type tests) some chance of working. We obviously can't expose the same object under a different name as that would defeat the purpose. It isn't a 100% solution, but often these hacks won't be and don't need to be.
I don't think anybody is suggesting that these properties become part of the standard. It seems to me that a conforming implementation should be able to implement such compatibility hacks though, which is why they were brought up.
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