Operas compatibility to other browsers
Wednesday, 29. August 2007, 16:56:55
By reading a really good article about programming webpages working in different browsers correctly (mainly for IE and FF); I get the link to this page and this page.
The two pages about the Proprietary Tags from Netscape and IE.
Although all of this tags aren't used by new pages, there are enough old, not updated, pages which have these tags in use.
Opera want to be more compatible to other browsers (or lets say to webpages). To get a step further Opera should add these old, unpopular tags for downward compatibility!
The tags that are used in:
For netscape
<blink>
<ilayer>
<keygen>
<layer>
<multicol>
<nolayer>
<server>
<spacer>
For IE
<bgsound>
<comment>
<marquee>
From these 12 tags are only basefont; marquee and blink supported by Opera(I discovered in the documentation on opera.com). I think is is really poor. Why don't support the ofter tags? (I know that some goes/went really on your/mine nervs)
The two pages about the Proprietary Tags from Netscape and IE.
Although all of this tags aren't used by new pages, there are enough old, not updated, pages which have these tags in use.
Opera want to be more compatible to other browsers (or lets say to webpages). To get a step further Opera should add these old, unpopular tags for downward compatibility!
The tags that are used in:
For netscape
<blink>
<ilayer>
<keygen>
<layer>
<multicol>
<nolayer>
<server>
<spacer>
For IE
<bgsound>
<comment>
<marquee>
From these 12 tags are only basefont; marquee and blink supported by Opera(I discovered in the documentation on opera.com). I think is is really poor. Why don't support the ofter tags? (I know that some goes/went really on your/mine nervs)
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mabdul # 29. August 2007, 23:23
These are tags that relics of the first browser war and programmers had to choise which browser to support (or have to make two sites). But why the hell opera support basefont; marquee and blink tags which were popular? why not supporting unpopular tags?
mabdul
mabdul # 30. August 2007, 12:12
I was searching the net and I found only this entry on: http://www.webdevout.net/browser-support-dom#support-domhtml-htmlbasefontelement
[a very good actual(not complete list for all browsers) comparison of the standardsupport in different browsers!]
You're right with the sec, but I don't find this in the page (maybe missed, not implemnted in the page or the link goes to the spec I mentioned.)
Doesn't matter: the problem: opera doesn't support all specs for the stardards (although it is the best browser o.O)
The problem is: the pages are online! The stuff is almost historical, but this is the point. As you could read in my blog, i'm sometimes surfing in the gopher-space which is also historical and gives many information about the starting of the web!
at that time (when netscape was good and have big marketshare) users and web-developers had to choose for which browser the site will work. Because of that they used proprietary tags...
do you understand where the problem comes from and where problem is nowadays? i think so. so why don't get the support for these pages?
mabdul