Re: IE 7.0

Mason Barge said on 21/03/2006 8:50 AM AEST:
Does anybody have a good idea of how useful Javascript will be in IE
7?

ECMAScript Language Ed 3. is already fully supported (expect for a few bugs here and there) in JScript and hence IE, why would MS change that?

Most of the standards focus for IE 7 has been on support for the W3C CSS 2 (and security), hence changes to the IE DOM appear to realted to CSS rather than full compliance with the W3C DOM, e.g.:

"For the SELECT few..."
<URL:http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/01/17/514076.aspx>

Search through the IE blog:
<URL:http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/category/6862.aspx>

There's an IE wiki here:
<URL:http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.InternetExplorerFeedback>


Post a question, see what happens...


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Rob
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