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Seeking a Browser Compatibility Reference?

Posted by Cliff on from the dealing-with-the-minutae dept.

Fr05t asks: "Gone are the days of being able to use the W3C specs for DHTML and Javascript as a solid reference for every browser. To make things worse I've been finding more and more I'm required to build richer web content that runs on all browsers. I've found many books that have a chapter on Browser Compatibility, but is there such a thing as a complete guide to the incompatibilities between IE, Netscape, and Opera? I'd even settle for a site dedicated to the documentation of the browser SNAFU."

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  1. Re:More and more??? by reaper20 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Except for the fact that IE renders things different from version to version. So "just coding for IE" isn't as simple. Which version?

  2. Re:I used to try by ceejayoz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I code for IE and IE only now...

    Why not code valid XHTML? It renders perfectly in IE, as well as any other modern browser.

    Really what we need to is (I know I'll get killed for saying it) for all broswers to impliment DOM, CSS and javascript the way MS does.

    No, we need idiot web designers to code valid XHTML. I do it, it's easy - in fact, it's entirely automated - I send everything through Tidy and it does all the work for me.