[WEB4LIB] Re: Question on mouseovers

[Keith Higgs]

At 04:42 PM 1/24/2002, you wrote:
>These days, there really needs to be a test for the W3C DOM.  I'm not an
>expert, but what I copied and pasted from Those Who Know is a test for
>document.getElementsByTagName("*")--excluding Netscape 4, which apparently
>claims wrongly to understand this.
>
>
>Thomas Dowling
>OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
>tdowling at ohiolink.edu

Unfortunately, the advice I was given on this from the nice folks at 
Mozilla.org was, since DOM compliance is still incomplete for many browsers 
the recommended solution is to test for the specific DOM methods you 
use.  Thus, when I was working on a script that displays a digital clock I 
had to test for document.getElementByID() to determine if I could use that 
method.

BTW, If you want to see my clock in action it's at http://digilib.cwru.edu/.

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