Re: Script error on Google Homepage

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Roland Hall wrote:
> So, you're saying that a browser, as long as it supports
> every standard in the list, it can do whatever the hell
> else is wants and still be compliant?

Absolutely not. I do not use the word "compliant" in any software context.



>> That page does not specify how innerHTML SUPPORT should
>> look. It does not, for example, explain how getAttribute
>> should behave when innerHTML has been changed.
>
> Why would innerHTML doc explain getAttribute?

A proper innerHTML specification would explain exactly what the browser
needed to accomplish with respect to the document structure. This would be
especially important with innerHTML because the very nature of innerHTML
opens a huge hole in the validity of your HTML.

To understand what I mean, consider the range of things that could go wrong
if you tried something like this:

myObj.innerHTML = "</td>"

Your "specification" does not explain how the browser should behave when
told to break the structure of the document. I assume you understand SQL
injection. Think "HTML injection" here.

Can YOU offer us a concise and complete set of rules governing when
attributes in elements inserted via innerHTML change should be accessible to
getAttribute?



>> "100% standards compliant" makes no sense to me.
>
> I see that.

But you don't appear to understand it. There are hundreds of specifications.
Which ones comprise the 100% group?



>> Which standards, specifically?
>
> The ones on the list.

Which list? The word "specifically" is not ambiguous.



>> Conformance does not require you to find a standard for each
>> feature.
>
> Cool. I like createPopup()

Good for you. I could not care less about it than I do. Note that I do not
dislike it. I simply do not care about it. I only care that Internet
Explorer does not support such things as attribute selectors, or that IE
incorrectly implements getElementById().

If I do my job correctly -- coding to standards -- I would like the client
to do its job -- conforming to those same standards. Client support for such
garbage as createPopup() is rendered irrelevant by my decision to use
standards, so I have no reason to care about such support.



> So, are you looking for more conformance or compliance in your
> browser?

All of us would like more conformance to more standards -- as a developer, I
am specifically interested in (X)HTML, CSS and DOM conformance.


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