On Sat, 12 May 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:57:20AM +0300, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:
> > IK>> As to KHTML (used by Konq), it's much more forgiving than Mozilla.
> > IK>> Heck, it implements a 'document.all' object (for IE compatibility)!
> >
> > If it implements full MSIE DOM (including all properties and methods ans
> > stuff) it's cool. But somehow I doubt it. But if it does not, this only
> > means they do a great disservice for the users, because now this browser
> > is detected by all scripts as MSIE (while if it didn't support MSIE but
> > did support W3C DOM, it would be detected as "W3C DOM browser") and all
> > scripts that have different versions for MSIE and W3C DOM (a lot of them)
> > try now to use MSIE version and fail miserably. It's very bad to
> > masquerade as supporting something unless you do support it 100%.
>
> The proper logics should be first test for W3C DOM (via
> document.getElementByTag('body') or smth) to detect Moz / Konq / IE5,
> only only later resort to hacks.
True. also - a lot of scripts (which of course don't check for browser
support other then document.all vs. document.layers) use document.all and
no other IE specific extensions which isn't in the DOM.
Oded
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