The fact is, although there may be a revamped Netscape 6 with a new renderer, it is still stuck in 1997 as far as a Document Object Model goes, and CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) support.
IE is very object-oriented. That is how W3C wants it. Netscape is very procedural, and special-case oriented.
For instance, to add an event listener for onMouseMove() you cannot simply put onMouseMove() = functionCall() on any item. You have to apply it only to a body or an anchor tag, and IN ADDITION specify specially in a script to even LISTEN for this event?! Yet for other events you don't, such as for onMouseOver()
I'm tired of Netscape forcing their ideas of how we web developers should code. Who says that I don't need onMouseMove just as much as I need onMouseOver or onLoad? You cannot even specify an onDblClick() event listener without extra work. And extra work costs my clients money. Sheesh!
Now you see why some of the companies I freelance for require their clients to use IE, especially for large web-based applications.
Now if only we could get an IE for Linux..
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The fact is, although there may be a revamped Netscape 6 with a new renderer, it is still stuck in 1997 as far as a Document Object Model goes, and CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) support.
IE is very object-oriented. That is how W3C wants it. Netscape is very procedural, and special-case oriented.
For instance, to add an event listener for onMouseMove() you cannot simply put onMouseMove() = functionCall() on any item. You have to apply it only to a body or an anchor tag, and IN ADDITION specify specially in a script to even LISTEN for this event?! Yet for other events you don't, such as for onMouseOver()
I'm tired of Netscape forcing their ideas of how we web developers should code. Who says that I don't need onMouseMove just as much as I need onMouseOver or onLoad? You cannot even specify an onDblClick() event listener without extra work. And extra work costs my clients money. Sheesh! Now you see why some of the companies I freelance for require their clients to use IE, especially for large web-based applications. Now if only we could get an IE for Linux..