With JavaScript 1.6 Mozilla introduced generic version of a lot of the Array and String methods. Without broad support these very useful methods are in reality only available to Firefox and Firefox extension. Personally I’ve become too used to them to survive long without them. I’ve previously posted the JS 1.5 array extras and I’ve [...]
I was reading through an article about Atlas at eWeek where they quote Russ Nemhauser, head of Nemhauser Media Inc.:
“JavaScript is not an object-oriented language. It does not have strong typing; there is no exception handling; and there is no inheritance. One of the biggest problems with the AJAX approach is the amount of time [...]
Here are just a few things that are incorrect, horribly broken or totally non-existent in Internet Explorer Beta 2. (This is far from a complete list. I’m assembling this list as I’m writing this post.)
DOM Level 1 Core
Comments are still incorrect
Attributes are still horribly broken
DOM Level 2 Views
document.defaultView
getComputedStyle
getOverrideStyle
CSS
box-sizing
opacity
:active
:focus
Events
No DOM Level 2 Events support at all
document.onclick [...]