WANTED: table of feature support vs browsers

[Guest]

Hi all...

I seemed to be getting addicted to features that IE supports, spend time
developing sites that use them, and then find that the site looks bad
from another browser. I love CSS expressions, for example, but Netscape
seems to ignore them.

Can anyone point me to a website that publishes an authoritative and
exhaustive breakdown of what features work in each browser? Examples:

-- CSS expressions, CSS2
-- DHTML behaviors
-- VBScript, JScript-Java-ECMA
-- Expando properties (or is it attributes?)
-- Filters and transitions (alpha mostly)
-- Font embedding (hope you had a hanky handy before you shorted milk
out your nose!)

-- Would also like to see a table of "probable installed fonts" for
operating systems and browsers.

Stuff like that.

Thanks!
mvsmith

 

[Murray]

I love CSS expressions, for example, but Netscape

seems to ignore them.

Like what? Oh - you are talking about the CSS2 expressions? Yah.

See below for more -

--
Murray

Hi all...

I seemed to be getting addicted to features that IE supports, spend time
developing sites that use them, and then find that the site looks bad
from another browser. I love CSS expressions, for example, but Netscape
seems to ignore them.

Can anyone point me to a website that publishes an authoritative and
exhaustive breakdown of what features work in each browser? Examples:

-- CSS expressions, CSS2
-- DHTML behaviors

There is no problem with dHTML in any v4+ browser (speaking generally, of
course)

-- VBScript, JScript-Java-ECMA

This is a server issue, unless you are speaking of client-side scripting,
which is then poorly supported.

-- Expando properties (or is it attributes?)
Huh?

-- Filters and transitions (alpha mostly)

Poor support.

-- Font embedding (hope you had a hanky handy before you shorted milk
out your nose!)

Nope - although you may be interested in Googling for recent developments
with regard to IFR, and sIFR, which rely on image replacement methods (the
latter uses javascript and Flash, and is quite an attractive method since it
would be as cross-browser/platform as Flash is).

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/sifr

-- Would also like to see a table of "probable installed fonts" for
operating systems and browsers.

This is simple -

PC

 

[Guest]

Murray...

Thanks for your in-line responses below, in particular on IFR and sIFR.
The areas below were examples, but I was wondering whether
anyone is doing a very detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative
comparison on browser support for web technologies.

BTW, expando attributes/properties is the MS name (I think) for assigning
custom-named attributes to tags, and then referencing them
in the DHTML object model.

--mvsmith

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Expando is a property allowing dynamic properties in IE5+ only
See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...l/reference/properties/expando.asp?frame=true
and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...overview/dhtml_overviews_entry.asp?frame=true




<MVSmith> wrote in message | Murray...
|
| Thanks for your in-line responses below, in particular on IFR and sIFR.
| The areas below were examples, but I was wondering whether
| anyone is doing a very detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative
| comparison on browser support for web technologies.
|
| BTW, expando attributes/properties is the MS name (I think) for assigning
| custom-named attributes to tags, and then referencing them
| in the DHTML object model.
|
| --mvsmith
|
|
| | > > I love CSS expressions, for example, but Netscape
| > > seems to ignore them.
| >
| > Like what? Oh - you are talking about the CSS2 expressions? Yah.
| >
| > See below for more -
| >
| > --
| > Murray
| >
| > <MVSmith> wrote in message | > > Hi all...
| > >
| > > I seemed to be getting addicted to features that IE supports, spend time
| > > developing sites that use them, and then find that the site looks bad
| > > from another browser. I love CSS expressions, for example, but Netscape
| > > seems to ignore them.
| > >
| > > Can anyone point me to a website that publishes an authoritative and
| > > exhaustive breakdown of what features work in each browser? Examples:
| > >
| > > -- CSS expressions, CSS2
| > > -- DHTML behaviors
| >
| > There is no problem with dHTML in any v4+ browser (speaking generally, of
| > course)
| >
| > > -- VBScript, JScript-Java-ECMA
| >
| > This is a server issue, unless you are speaking of client-side scripting,
| > which is then poorly supported.
| >
| > > -- Expando properties (or is it attributes?)
| >
| > Huh?
| >
| > > -- Filters and transitions (alpha mostly)
| >
| > Poor support.
| >
| > > -- Font embedding (hope you had a hanky handy before you shorted milk
| > > out your nose!)
| >
| > Nope - although you may be interested in Googling for recent developments
| > with regard to IFR, and sIFR, which rely on image replacement methods (the
| > latter uses javascript and Flash, and is quite an attractive method since it
| > would be as cross-browser/platform as Flash is).
| >
| > http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/sifr
| >
| > >
| > > -- Would also like to see a table of "probable installed fonts" for
| > > operating systems and browsers.
| >
| > This is simple -
| >
| > PC
| > ----
| > Times New Roman, Courier New, Arial, Verdana, Georgia, Comic Sans, Trebuchet
| > MS, and system fonts.
| >
| > Mac
| > -----
| > Times, Courier, Verdana, Georigia, Trebuchet MS, and the all traditional Mac
| > fonts (Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, Palatino, etc.) as well as system fonts.
| >
| > >
| > > Stuff like that.
| > >
| > > Thanks!
| > > mvsmith
| > >
| > >
| > >
| >
| >
|
|