The list of things that are different in IE.

[HopfZ]

I was debugging a javascript file that did not work in IE. It took
several hours only to learn that s = 'ABC'; c = s; is not
IE-compatible. If I knew this before, It could have saved hours. I find
myself in this kind of situation several times.

Is there some well written list of things (in javascript) that does not
work as expected in IE?

 

[Erwin Moller]

I was debugging a javascript file that did not work in IE. It took
several hours only to learn that s = 'ABC'; c = s; is not
IE-compatible. If I knew this before, It could have saved hours. I find
myself in this kind of situation several times.

Is there some well written list of things (in javascript) that does not
work as expected in IE?

Hi,

Irritating, isn't it?
The most comprehensive approach I know of is a book:
Javascript, the definitive guide (5th edition now I think) by Flanagan,
published by O'Reilly.

It contains, amongst others:
- basic guidelines to code in a general way.
- lists for all functions/methods if they are supported by which browsers.

It has good CSS coverage too.

For almost any problem you can write a JS routine that will only use the
'common API' so you code works on IE/FF/Opera/etc. with no/minimal
branching in your code.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

 

[Randy Webb]

HopfZ said the following on 12/18/2006 12:34 PM:

I was debugging a javascript file that did not work in IE. It took
several hours only to learn that s = 'ABC'; c = s; is not
IE-compatible. If I knew this before, It could have saved hours. I find
myself in this kind of situation several times.

Is there some well written list of things (in javascript) that does not
work as expected in IE?

And what about things that don't "work as expected" in non-IE browsers?