On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:44:11AM +1000, Benno wrote:
> On Fri Jul 14, 2006 at 10:31:38 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
[...]
> >Well, one thing is that historically it behaved quite differently
> >between different browsers and versions of the browser.  But this seems
> >less of a problem now, though not totally gone.  I think even Rasmsus's
> >5-minute ajax tutorial has MSIE conditional code.
> 
> I think that comes down to library though (that is how it binds to the 
> browser), 
> and not the language itself.

Largely, but not entirely.  e.g.
http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2005/06/02/javascript-sucks-volume-1/ and
http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2005/07/18/javascript-sucks-volume-2/ include
some points about inconsistent behaviour of core language facilities (syntax,
builtin types) between interpreters.

-Andrew.

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