Oliver Frank wrote: > Tim Churches wrote: > >> And so on. It is complex and arcane stuff, alas. > > So is the short answer to my question that Internet Explorer does not > conform to international standards for Web browsers?
The short answer is that no browser completely conforms to international standards for Web browsers, but IE6 and earlier conform less than recent versions of Firefox. Endless geeky debate can be had with respect to the conformance of IE7 to international standards - it is a lot better than IE6, and some say as good as (but different to) Firefox's conformance, others say not. The differences in the DOM which is fundamental to the use of Javascript still exist, but there is no international standard for a DOM, as far as I know (is that correct?), so the differences are just differences: Microsoft's DOM versus everyone else's. However, the real point is that there are solid, freely available resources (both informational and Javascript code libraries) to allow any half-competent Web developer to overcome these differences and make Web apps work properly with *any* recent browser - there is no excuse not to do so. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
