AW: [Opera-users] Java Script

[Dave Anderson]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:58:14 +0300, Silviu Cojocaru <silviucj at yahoo.com> wrote:

>Tuesday, June 26, 2001, 4:56:28 PM, Bodenstedt, Martin wrote:
>
>> Opera strictly sticks to the JavaScript standard and all these fancy fading
>> things are proprietary extensions of the browser programmers...
>
>Well, the fancy things will always be there, and while M$ is
>around IE will probably have the big share of the browser
>market. And M$ will not drop the fancy stuff.
>
>Netscape, has had this in view with the 4.x series and tried to
>keep up. IMO it's not a good idea to make browsers so diff. Well
>java will run fine on Opera, IE and Netscape, but let's face it,
>it sucks up to much resources from a system just to display a
>moving cube :)
>
>So what I'm trying to say is that, maybe, the Opera developers
>should try to support that stuff too.

Please think carefully about what you're asking for.  There's a constant 
flow of non-standard crap from M$, it's all poorly (if at all) documented, 
and some of it is totally incompatible with standards-conformant behavior. 
The amount of time needed to keep track of, reverse-engineer and implement 
any substantial fraction of this stuff would kill a small company like 
Opera (which is no doubt one of the reasons that M$ does it).

        Dave

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