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March 20, 2006
Microsoft Atlas and Mozilla Compat
Microsoft's DHTML (ne AJAX) toolkit, Atlas, uses a interesting way to gain Mozilla compatability.
The main Atlas files are all written for IE, with all the non-standard stuff like attachEvent. But before it is included, they include a compat layer, which adds all the IE-isms to Mozilla. Safari gets the same treatment - I believe Opera is already a total IE API whore these days.
They use all the advanced JS features like the __defineGetter__/__proto__ magic we have to achieve this.
Cause writing to standards is, like, so 2005.
Posted by doron at 6:40 PM | Comments (8)