"Browser Specifics"?
Hi all,
If you have any good examples of "Browser Specifics" (HTML tags that only work for a specific browser) please post them here. I can only think of a few at the top of my head - marquee, blink, mailto - anymore?
Thanks
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Abhishek Reddy posted this at 05:18 — 25th November 2004.
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was the Netscape version of
I don't think tag support is as important now as it was a few years ago. The pressing issue now is CSS support and maybe DOM compatibility. With simple tags like one can build a page with HTML that's perfectly supported across all platforms, yet style it with CSS that is inconsistently supported. Similar issue with the DOM and Javascript methods.
Four years ago, you could find pages online showing tag support tables for the big browsers. Now you'll more likely encounter CSS support charts.
sumeiko posted this at 07:08 — 25th November 2004.
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OK, thanks Abhishek
About Firefox: Is it compatible with all HTML tags? I've just downloaded it and tested it with , , , and mailto. They all work fine. Is there anything Firefox DOESN'T support?
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Abhishek Reddy posted this at 10:24 — 25th November 2004.
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Yes, Busy posted some good links.
Afaik, the Moz folks follow a "silent support" policy. They firstly aim to support the W3C specification, and then they quietly add support for proprietary stuff. One example is Gecko's support for the innerHTML method, which is an IE thing.
W3C's Amaya web browser probably most accurately implements the spec. Its only disadvantages are it's not really leading the pack in terms of features and development. It's just a good example of how to properly follow the spec.
Busy posted this at 08:09 — 25th November 2004.
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No browser fully supports any version of HTML, even the browsers that do support some things they don't support everything of it, mailto for example, if you use the subject/body option of the tag it wont always work in later versions of IE, empty td tags give different effects in different browsers, background (html not css) tiles differently in tables ...
marquee etc will work in firefox but not netscape, blink is a netscape tag
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/ states: W3C's HTML 4 Specification (mostly supported by Mozilla) more info here http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/quirklist.html
Opera also has a page on what they do and dont support (http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/), IE dont have a page as far as I know
You can only list browser specifics per versions, i.e. IE5 vs NS4 or NS6, IE5.5 VS Mozilla1, IE6 vs Opera6 ... to get real answers otherwise it's meaningless as what didn't work two versions ago does now, or what worked last version doesn't work now.
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