Thursday, 20 February 2003
Apple's article on JavaScript in Mac Browsers, like the rest in their Internet Developer series, is comprehensive and well-written. (If only the technical notes and Q&As were anywhere near as good…) The most startling observations for me were that iCab does a better job of JavaScript than OmniWeb (despite having far less development effort behind it), and that Opera 6 and earlier do not support page reflow: Opera 7 does, but is not available on the Macintosh. For a browser which claimed to be as standards-compliant as Opera, this seems a very significant omission. The last version of Opera that I used much was version 3, since it was the only full-featured browser that worked at any reasonable speed on the Pentium 100 with Windows 95 I used at a previous job.
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