NS and IE DOM

Where to find good reference / examples

[neil laurance]

Hi there.

I'm trying to discover to what extent Netscape 6 and Explorer 5.5 support the World Wide Web Consortium's Document Object Model. I downloaded the DOM 2 Core, the DOM 3 Core, and the DOM 3 events. I must admit, these are good references, but can anyone recommend other reference / tutorials / example sites (specifically showing the extent to which these browsers support the DOM).

Thanks, Neil

[mivox]

richinstyle.com's bug tables and example pages have been a very handy reference for me... Sorta coming at your question backwards though: gives a good idea of what the browsers don't support.

[MikeFoster]

Lots of good links, organized well:

[web-building.com...]

[neil laurance]

Thanks Mike! Top Link!

Cheers, NEIL

[bobriggs]

I was doing some DOM/CSS testing across browsers and came up with this:

Browser Feature Detection on developer.netscape.com [developer.netscape.com]

Load the URL in each of your test browsers.

Pretty handy reference, (does not test whether the implementation of the method or property is correct, only tests whether the method or property is defined)

[starway]

I checked that link to developer.netscape.com with my Opera, and what I got? Opera's support of DOM is very very poor according to their tests.
What is it: truth or misunderstanding of Opera's implementation of those features? I also checked "DOM Core Level 2 Conformance Test" but I got a message that sais:
"browser does not support the requested page ... page requires advanced features in JavaScript 1.3+ (ECMAScript Edition 3) and the W3C DOM that are not supported by your browser"

Any comments on this?

[BlobFisk]

Danny Goodman (of the JavaScript Bible fame) has a nice, free DOM roadmap available for download at his site.

Called the JavaScript and Browser Objects Quick Reference Guide, it has the W3C DOM's, Netscape 4.x DOM and even the IE3 DOM. A very nice reference poster.

The URL is: http://www.dannyg.com/javascript/quickref/index.html [dannyg.com]

Hope this helps...

[bobriggs]

starway:

Opera does not support W3C DOM Core apart from the methods mentioned above. Documentation on W3C DOM/HTML support is forthcoming.

Taken from:
Opera's specifications [opera.com]

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As far as the conformance tests go, I think they're sniffing for Gecko and IE5 and only allowing those browsers to run:

As time and resources permit, these tests will be updated to provide better ability to test browsers other than Gecko and Internet Explorer.

[moonbiter]

See also:

Peter Paul Koch's W3C DOM Compatibility Table [xs4all.nl]

Mozilla.org's DOM support in Mozilla [mozilla.org] and The DOM in Mozilla [mozilla.org].