good for opera. good for the web
Opera has finally abandoned its advertised support for Microsoft IE's document.all DOM method, and has adopted Mozilla's approach to compatibility in this area.
The more we can collectively wean the Web off of this out-dated, non-standard (or pre-standard, in this case) IE content, the better off we all are.
reactions, thoughts, comments, etc.
As part of welcoming Opera over to The Mozilla/Safari Way of handling document.all, do you think Mozilla will help the Opera team avoid breaking a bunch of websites, or is Opera going to have to do this solo? Seems like this is one step closer to putting IE where it belongs, so it'd be to Mozilla's advantage to help Opera here. At any rate, I hope there's a bunch of cross-vendor collaboration with this decision. It'll mean a lot for the web. I'm glad to see you're excited, Asa.
Posted by: IceArdor | January 25, 2008 7:45 PM
Anything that weens the web off of outdated non standards based ways of doing things is a wonderful thing. Although it would create headaches for coutless designers and developers I hope Microsoft follows suit, it would better the web for all of us.
Posted by: Robert | January 25, 2008 10:13 PM
I think that it made sense for Opera to make document.all visible at the time they did. Now that FF-awareness has reduced the necessity of document.all somewhat, I think this is a good time to hide it again. Fingers crossed that the test run goes to plan.
Posted by: johnnysaucepn | January 26, 2008 3:18 AM
"Opera has finally abandoned it's advertised support"
*its* advertised support
Posted by: one_who_cares | January 26, 2008 5:31 AM