IE Firefox compatibility

Hi, I'm an IT teacher in England running a BTEC course for A-level students, the unit is 'Client -side cutomisation of web pages' and deals specifically with CSS and Javascript, for 1 of the assessment criteria I need to get students to 'explain how web pages using scripts are implemented in two different browsers', now the obvious browsers there I assume would be IE and Firefox and I will need to set the students a task which will require them to write 2 different implementations of javascript to perform the same task (ie because browser incompatibilities won't run the same code the same way).

Having checked a lot of blogs tonight I'm finding this difficult, particularly as the students are novice coders and the obscurities of the latest bits of W3C DOM to be implemented in latest browser versions is probably beyond their capabilities. So I suppose my question would be 'is there a simple task or procedure in javascript that is required to be written differently for IE and Firefox, thanks, Dave

Nov 6 '07 #1

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Hi:
I write an example for you:

[HTML]
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>

<body>
<input type="button" id="btn_OK" value="OK" />

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>

[/HTML]

By the way: if I were you, I will not require my students to write Non-Portable code.

hope it helps.

Nov 7 '07 #2

acoder

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I will need to set the students a task which will require them to write 2 different implementations of javascript to perform the same task (ie because browser incompatibilities won't run the same code the same way).
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So I suppose my question would be 'is there a simple task or procedure in javascript that is required to be written differently for IE and Firefox, thanks, Dave

Check out Browser Bugs, Quirks and Inconsistencies and A Guide to Coding Cross-Browser Scripts which will give you some ideas.

The obvious example as used by Ferris is event handling where IE is notoriously bad (it has its own non-standard model).

Whatever you do, do not use ugly ten-years old code which used to differentiate between IE and Netscape using document.all and document.layers.

Hope that helps.

Nov 7 '07 #3

drhowarddrfine

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If this helps, you can check on the level of DOM support in your browser. As you will see, IE is almost 10 years behind while Firefox and Opera are only three or so.

Nov 7 '07 #4

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