During the last time the evangelism for using W3C standards is growing. But there is a big problem with writing fully standard pages, especially when using DOM: The fact that the most popular(and ugly) browser don't support these standards. A web page written by the standard probably won't work as expected with this browser. Many webmasters allow themselves having a site which is only IE compatible, but most won't dare having a web site which is only mozilla compatible.
A great example for this issue is the W3C DOM standard addEventListener function, which isn't implemented in the popular browser. The popular workaround for this is checking whether addEventListener exist and if not using attachEvent (Which is a microsoft invention not mentioned in the W3C standard). But this is a workaround, can you say a script is standard while it contains a nonstandard function? I assume you probably know the anybrowser campaign (http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/), are they preaching for nonstandard pages (consider the last paragraph)? Any way after spilling my heart, here is my actual problem: I can't persuade most of my friends using mozilla because they cannot view their favorite sites, and webmasters don't want to invest resources on making their sites mozilla compatible because mozilla's market share is relatively small, this is a circular problem... So I decided to help webmasters convert their sites with minimum resources, how? I started writing a tool for automatically creating mozilla compatible pages from IE compatible pages. But I haven't decided yet with what to replace attachEvent for example, my best alternative right now is using the popular workaround I described... Can anyone offer a better solution(I wish to create pages which are standard as possible). Sorry for the long post, -Amir. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
