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ADC Rates Web Browsers For Javascript Compatibility

Posted by timothy on from the rollover-rollover dept.

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."

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  1. Mozilla do ALL the test OK. by TulioSerpio · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not using a mac, but in mozillazine.org someone said the Mozilla team corrected the scrollbars bug in the latest builds.
    In my pc seems to work, too.

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  2. Re:I wonder... by ip_vjl · · Score: 4, Informative

    Running IE6 on w2k, it fares quite well.

    The only test it seems to have some issue with is the W3CDOM test where it creates form fields on the fly.

    It creates the fields, but the radio buttons don't seem to accept a click. This may have to do with the fact that the radio buttons don't have a name attribute. I've noticed before that IE (at least mine) doesn't like unnamed radio buttons (as that's how it knows how to group them).

    Otherwise, the other tests worked quite well.

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    Using Mozilla/Phoenix on win - the 'Import XML' test fails on my system.

    From the Phoenix JS console:
    Error: xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("apple")[0] has no properties
    Source File: http://developer.apple.com/internet/javascript/tes ts/import.html
    Line: 31

  3. not a total waste of time... by russcoon · · Score: 5, Informative

    This article isn't bad, but it only scratches the surface of a lot of more insidious problems with all the browsers "tested".

    For instance, no real differentiation is made between DOM 0, DOM 1, and DOM 2 style events and their setters. There's not even a whisper about mutation events. The section on "display" properties totally misses the related (and more useful) problems of using attribute getters and setters in the various browsers. Ever tried setting a div to have overflow="scroll" on Safari?

    One last nit: does anyone else find it uber-annoying that ADC's articles don't have authorship attribution?

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  4. Re:interesting... by russcoon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Um, it's because Opera 6.x has no DOM support to speak of. V7 is showing real promise on the platforms it's available on, but the Opera 6 series is notoriously bad at anything that isn't straight-up HTML w/ CSS.

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