ADC Rates Web Browsers For Javascript Compatibility

blamanj writes "The Apple Developer's site has an article about Javascript compatibility. They rate the 6 Mac browsers for feature-completeness in the Javascript arena. For those who don't read articles, Mozilla wins by a nose."

Comments

People are concerned about this?

[Hythlodaeus]

I have never seen a web site with information that couldn't be presented best in plain HTML.

Re:People are concerned about this?

[russcoon]

If you consider that the web is used for a lot more than academic papers in the year 2003, you'll be quite suprised to find that JavaScript w/ DOM bindings can be quite useful in helping to make web _application_ interfaces suck less. HTML makes an....um...interesting presentation layer for lots of stuff, application data included, but when you want to do something with that data, HTML's cracks start to show.

http://netWindows.org/docs/round_trips.html

The XML test...

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought the whole point of these tests was to measure the brwoser's standards compliance. Then they go and code their javaScript (for the XML test, at least) such that there is a specific implementation so that IE will work since IE doesn't support the method called for by the standard.

What's the point of testing browser compliance if you're going to execute separate code for specific browsers? Why not just check the navigator.appName and then write browser specific javaScript code like we've had to do ever since IE entered the browser war?

Re:Apple: "We're Great"

[Daleks]

Safari was the only browser that was perfect on all tests. I could certainly develop some tests [diveintomark.org] that safari would fail....

diveintomark.org details CSS and rendering issues. This was a JavaScript test.

Seriously, is this meaningful in any way whatsoever?

What would you rather Steve said? "Safari is insanlely great!"? Apple posted a reproducable test suite that outlined some of Safari's positives and negatives. As for Apple saying "We're Great", the conclusion reads "The new Safari 1.0 beta is a strong contender." Safari went toe-to-toe with Mozilla and came out alive. That is quite an accomplishment and Apple should be commended for it.

Re:Apple: "We're Great"

[critter_hunter]

... There's no telling how many tests where done, but whose results we won't get to see until they have fixed the bugs. Let's see some tests from an independant third party. I bet Safari won't get "Perfect except for that W3C draft thing which no browser except Mozilla support, test that seems like it was put in there just so Safari would fail it, and the test will look more neutral".

Nothing more than propaganda, I say