Posted by Arne on 01/13/00 11:29

Once upon a time *talthen.z-serwera.o2@nospam.pl* wrote:

> "Arne" <invalid@domain.invalid>
>> You must have serious problems with your pages if you have to omit
>> standard HTML tags to save a few bytes. :)
> My pages are very small- usually 2-3 kB of code :]
>
>> As allready is said, W3C doesn't have a Javascript validator. So you
>> may consult the Javascript Consol in Mozilla to see what it says about
>> the scripts you have.
>
> But it doesn't say it is reserved word, and it is not reserved in Opera and
> MSIE. MSIE has invented JavaScript, not Mozilla.
>

But at the moment JavaScript suffers from outdated, uninformed, and
inaccessible development methods, supported by the likewise outdated
IE browser. The WaSP DOM Scripting Task Force proposes to solve this
problem by the adoption of unobtrusive DOM scripting, a way of
thinking based on modern, standards-compliant, accessible web
development best practices.

The only way the earlier Netscape versions could get users was to
support the "inventions" from MSIE as good as they could. Opera
probably feel they must do the same in order to draw user to their
browser, at least for the moment.

IE has from the start made a distinct point of being as incompatible
as possible, and gleefully ignored standards such as W3C
recommendations. This still influences the way JavaScript is used,
especially by people who don’t work with it on a regular basis.

Solving these psychological problems requires a new way of thinking
that is more in line with modern, standards-compliant web development
practices. Still, accessibility efforts are too often limited to
saying "Sorry" to users of the wrong browser. Unobtrusive thinking
help to solve this problem.

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/Arne
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