January 15, 2008

Internet Explorer To Mozilla Migration Guide

Filed under: Mozilla Firefox — Grace @ 12:25 pm

CONTENTS OF THE GUIDE, INCLUDE:
* Introduction
o What is Mozilla
o Mozilla Philosophy (standards compliant, etc)
* General Cross Browser Coding Tips
o Browser Detection the Right Way (capabilities VS browser specific checks)
o Abstracting Out Browser Differences
* DHTML
o DOM Differences
+ document.all/global namespace VS document.getElementById
+ Document Fragments
+ Table of mappings from IE -> Standards/Mozilla (innerhtml)
o JavaScript Differences
+ getYear() VS getFullYear
+ execution - adding code to the end won’t mean everything else has completed - use onload handlers
+ window.open is async!
o CSS
+ Units matter
+ Image spacing
o Events
+ IE event model VS Netscape/W3C model
+ Table of mappings
* Rich Text Editing
o Differences between Designmode in IE and Mozilla
* XML
o whitespace differences in XML
+ nodeType == 3 for text nodes
o XML Data Islands
o XSLT
+ XSLT JS Interface
o XML Web Services
+ XMLHttpRequest
+ SOAP
+ WSDL (?)
* Quirks VS Standard Modes
o Doctypes
* Furthur reading
o Books
o Mozilla.org
o DevEdge

Read more: nexgenmedia.net

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