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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. webmonkey by capoccia · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lycos' webmonkey has a basic chart.

  2. Browser conformance by __past__ · · Score: 4, Informative
    "Gone are the days"? WTF? Browsers have never been closer to spec conformance than today. (Well, possibly except WorldWideWeb.app, being written by TBL together with the first HTML spec).

    Sure, it is still amazing that there is no Browser fully conforming to HTML 4 or CSS 2, both being W3C recs for years, but to what kind of "standard" would Netscape 4 possibly conform?

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  3. CodeBitch by qengho · · Score: 4, Informative

    MacEdition has a good writer who tirelessly flogs web standards. She has several guides to cross-browser CSS support at the bottom of the page.

  4. O'Reilly's Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference by abh · · Score: 4, Informative

    O'Reilly's Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference does an excellent job of describing which browsers support various functions and each HTML tag.