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RE: DOM support in IE vs. NS

• To: "Ken Sall" <kensall@c...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: DOM support in IE vs. NS
• From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>
• Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:32:33 +0100
• Cc: <plh@w...>
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <00bf01c2dc31$aa5c9e60$54d83744@e...>

> From: Ken Sall [mailto:kensall@c...]
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 7:22 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Cc: plh@w...
> Subject:  DOM support in IE vs. NS
>
>
> Philippe Le Hégaret, DOM Activity Lead, has provided a page to test user
> agent DOM support [1]. I tested Netscape 7.0 and Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1
> and was a bit surprised at the results.
>
> NS supports DOM Level 2 except for 3 areas:
> - UIEvents: basic user interface events
> - MutationEvents: events for mutations in a DOM tree
> - Traversal: Alternative traversal methods of a DOM tree
>
> However, IE 6 fails all DOM Level 2 support tests. According to the test
> page, this *could* mean IE doesn't really implement a DOM module even
though

AFAIK, MSXML only supports the DOM level 1 methods *plus* a few extension
methods (such as createNode()) that enable it to basically support
namespaces. However, most DOM Level 2 methods (such as createElementNS) are
missing.

> it claims to. Anyone from Microsoft care to explain these results?

Microsoft doesn't seem to be care, I guess they're planning to abandon the
DOM API (in favor of the newer .NET APIs).

Julian

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