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Fecking Microsoft

Posted by stephen on Friday, 23rd November, 2007 @ 14:16

Firstly, debugging JavaScript in Internet Explorer seems to be nigh on impossible. In the end I found some help in the form of Web Development Helper, which is really worthwhile if you're doing any development for IE.

Secondly, unlike WebKit and Gecko, IE's rendering engine takes the rather frustrating step of making any TABLE or tablelike element, seemingly along with all child elements (when I was trying to figure out ways around it), have read-only innerHTML values.

And worst of all, to compensate you for this, they've come with the (as far as I can tell) entirely non-standard Table Object Model. I thought the days of fragmenting the web with incompatible standards were past us?

Made with Django.