As for .style, Opera seems to support it quite nicely. Of course, if it
didn't, I'm not likely to notice but a few sites have performed dynamic
background colour changes on mouse movement, and the like.
It didn't when I tried it. Maybe I need to check it out again...
I'm curious if my work apps would function in it now. heh
[1] Obviously, if a site states, "Sorry, this site is optimized for
Internet Explorer 5 and Netscape 6!!!" and it is supposed to teach how to
script sites, it's not very good, and not worth my time. We'll see what
Netscape thinks of such a practice: I asked them to remove the site from
their list.
Well, I get your point, but there are some things that just can't be
done in some browsers. I don't do those things for my internet stuff,
but I do for my intranet apps. So, to me, scripts that only work in IE5
+/NN7+ are just fine (and sometimes great) for some of my applications.
I know the banking site I use requires IE5+ to work well. I've used it
with Mozilla and it does fine, but I know it would crash the old Opera.
The thing is, most bank customers use IE and they want all this dynamic
stuff, so the bank tries to comply and they end up breaking the site for
other browsers.
In a perfect world, all the browsers would have a real standard that
they all supported so we didn't drive ourselves crazy trying to code for
them. I know we're getting there, but you can't ask that all sites still
support archaic browsers, like NN4 and Opera 5, when the majority of the
customers want the bells and whistles available in the newer browsers.
Sure, anyone can learn to not *crash* old browsers by using object
detection, but some things simply can't be done in them (one of my DB
apps at work can't be done in NN4 for example, as the browser crashed
repeatedly with the large amount of buffering that was required for
large queries).
/MHO only YMMV
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