Oliver Frank wrote: > Tim Churches wrote: > >> Partly correct. The CSS implementation in IE6 (and IE7 to a lesser >> degree) is idiosyncratic, and the DOM (domain object model) used by >> Javascript in IE is different to all else. > > Thanks Peter and Tim for these very useful details. > > I am not sure now about the short answer to my original question, which > was: does Internet Explorer conform to international standards for Web > browsers? It looks to me from the above as if the brief answer is no. > Is this correct? > > I want to make sure that I understand this as well as possible, so that > I am ready for further discussions with the ACIR about this.
With respect to CSS, if you Google around you can find lots of resources like this: http://www.quirksmode.org - which contains a wealth of information on CSS and Javascript differences between browsers. A glance at http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html makes it clear that CSS standards conformance is not a simple binary issue - but IE6 and earlier were definitely worse than all other browsers. Summary DOM compatibility table: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/compatibility.html And so on. It is complex and arcane stuff, alas. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
