[MACCAWS] IE6 DOM (was: Software Tests - sets of standards and ALT tags)

On Sunday, July 21, 2002, at 10:06 PM, John Colby wrote:

> Didn't IE6 implement the DOM model differently? Which is why I 
> saidIE6 - as
> support for IE5.5 will very soon die (forgotten the exact roadmap, but
> thought it was this fall/autumn.)

IE6 requires you to use the W3C DOM if it is in 'standards' mode. 
That only
happens if the DTD is the very first line of the document (no XML
declaration, which is optional anyway). In 'quirks' mode, it's 
business as
usual. Either way, the difference is only whether you use 
document.all and
or document.getElementById() and so on. With a few exceptions 
regarding the
root element, scripting is pretty much the same from there on out, 
and IE5.x
for Mac and Windows both offer reasonable W3C DOM support, so if 
you just
use the W3C DOM you're pretty much covered.

As for IE5.x/Win dying, support may be withdrawn but the browser 
will live on for some time yet. If it weren't for the Y2K issue, I 
expect there'd be people still running Win 3.1.


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