Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 29, 2004 04:34 AM
...however one small note. For the most part the largest barrier to this and the largest fustration as a site programmer comes from differing javascript support across browsers. Writing sites which display the same in most any broswer using consistent standards driven markup (HTML,XHTML,CSS1,CSS2,CSS3 I prefer XHTML 1.0/CSS2 in my coding at this point) is easy. The support issues come when you want to do dynamic things. The javascript implimentations and their methods of addressing the DOM vary greatly between browsers creating the biggest compatibiliy problems. Sometimes this goes to such an extreme that to do some simple things one has to write two entirely different scripts to do the same thing. Or what is simple in one broswer to the point of being a single command, takes a lengthy script in the other.
You want browser independance tell the people making the browsers to start implimenting the same things in the same ways. Or better yet update the javascript specs to make the standards include both implimentations.
The biggest reason sites end up locked to a particular browser is becuase programmers of those sites don't have the cycles or the desire to do the same work twice.
Moral of the story: Fix javascript, and you will fix the problem.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 29, 2004 04:34 AMYou want browser independance tell the people making the browsers to start implimenting the same things in the same ways. Or better yet update the javascript specs to make the standards include both implimentations.
The biggest reason sites end up locked to a particular browser is becuase programmers of those sites don't have the cycles or the desire to do the same work twice.
Moral of the story: Fix javascript, and you will fix the problem.
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