Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!news.babsi.de!open-news-network.org!newsfeed.freenet.ag!takemy.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-ID: <1971021.WO8UjatxCD@PointedEars.de> From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Organization: PointedEars Software (PES) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:40:22 +0200 User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Face: %i>XG-yXR'\"2P/C_aO%~;2o~?g0pPKmbOw^=NT`tprDEf++D.m7"}HW6.#=U:?2GGctkL,f89@H46O$ASoW&?s}.k+&. Followup-To: comp.lang.javascript MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Aug 2012 13:40:23 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 55c6bc12.newsspool3.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=0F10:BacKka]BlmkiiU@BiMcF=Q^Z^V3h4Fo<]lROoRa8kF You mentioned addEventListener(). This method is not supported in IE > versions before 9, and there are many other situations in JS DOM event > handling where browser specific behaviors need to be addressed. For the > sake of simplicity, I have omitted them in the code below, so this will > only work in browsers which support the W3C event model (= basically > every current browser apart from IE 8-). Internet Explorer 9.x and other browsers using mshtml.dll 9.x do not support the addEventListener() method and other features of W3C DOM Level 3 Events when the layout engine is in Quirks Mode. PointedEars -- > If you get a bunch of authors […] that state the same "best practices" > in any programming language, then you can bet who is wrong or right... Not with javascript. Nonsense propagates like wildfire in this field. -- Richard Cornford, comp.lang.javascript, 2011-11-14