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From: Dr J R Stockton on 14 Apr 2010 12:44
In comp.lang.javascript message <hpvs53$i9i$1(a)news.eternal-
september.org>, Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:26:04, Garrett Smith
<dhtmlkitchen(a)gmail.com> posted:
>
>I do not approve of nonstandard examples in the FAQ. Particularly when
>they are presented as solutions to problems and especially when the
>consequences to using the nonstandard approach are not explained.
>

Examples used in the FAQ should normally work, or be believed to work,
in the 12 PC browsers that the EU makes Microsoft admit to[1], and in
other equally-common older browsers, and in a similar selection of non-
Windows browsers. They do not need to be W3C-compliant; but, where they
are not, that should be stated. They do not need to work in browsers
(they could be for JSCript in WSH, or other ECMAScript "derivatives");
but, where they are not, that should be stated.

[1] <http://www.browserchoice.eu/BrowserChoice/browserchoice_en.htm>

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