Hi Beverly, My experience is not unlike Ben's. Scripting cross-platform is not nearly as painful as it used to be, except for some less-traveled corners of the JavaScript DOM like reading/writing the body of nested IFRAME documents, dynamically assigning event handlers or managing XML objects.
The trick with getting MSIE 6 & 7 to play nice with the other browsers is to not allow MSIE to go into quirks-mode. This happens when you don't set a progressive !DOCTYPE definition, or if you do set one but don't stick to the requirements of said DOCTYPE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode For example, I often use the following DTD, !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"; And as long as I stick to the XHTML 1.0 specs as much as possible, then my document stays out of quirks-mode and things like innerHTML and getElementById works as it should. In fact I regularly use the Gecko documentation for all my cross-browser work now, including MSIE 6 & 7. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Gecko_DOM_Reference Note: MSIE 5 and earlier are a bit of write-off, as are other older browsers, but I don't see that as being a big deal these days when everyone on the planet "should" be running a modern version of their favorite browser for security reasons. Hope that helps. Scott, On Monday, October 29, 2007 10:36am, Beverly Voth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 10/28/07 11:14 PM, "Ben Johansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in whole or in > part: > >> That's kinda interesting because JS is one of the main things Robert >> has me doing ;-) >> I think that is time sensitive advise, and I could understand in >> early days where there was a lot of hoops you had to do to make JS >> cross platform, now it is basically ubiquitous. > > Except that it's NOT xplat now-a-days either. Check "innerHTML" and > "getElementById" in I.E. 7 and Opera.... > > Beverly > >> plus the advent of AJAX change people perception of JS for ever. >> >> Ben >> >> On Oct 28, 2007, at 7:39 PM, David Mark Weiss wrote: >> >> Ben, >> >> Thanks for the link. >> >> Robert once told me to avoid JS at all costs. He said he was really >> tough on his developers in justifying the use of it. Since then I >> have been also trying to avoid it's use, but in this case, there >> isn't a target attribute that I can see working. Also, when I have >> used this kind of thing in the past, I has worked out just fine. >> >> >> >> Mark Weiss >> http://trustthechildren.blogspot.com > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
