Alleged DOM Level 3 capabilities of Mozilla and Internet Explorer
Date:
2005-02-08 10:48:30
From:
Martin_Honnen
Since then does Internet Explorer have DOM Level 3? You say in your article: "I decided to use the XmlHTTPRequest object and the DOM Level 3 capabilities of Mozilla and Internet Explorer to craft my application." Event Mozilla doesn't hardly have any DOM Level 3 stuff, besides the textContent property perhaps. Could you explain which W3C DOM Level 3 recommendation Mozilla or IE exactly implement that you make use of?
You make use of Sarissa which makes use of the MSXML proprietary XPath API (selectNodes/selectSingleNode) and the Mozilla implementation of the W3C DOM Level 2 XPath note but that is not DOM Level 3. And XMLHttpRequest is also not DOM Level 3 or any W3C DOM, some functionality might overlap with DOM Level 3 Load and Save but that is all.
I make use of some DOM Level 3 Xpath features of Mozilla (http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-XPath). Sarissa maps those features to IE's collection of proprietary Xpath functions.
I agree that I should have made it more clear that IE doesn't implement many of the Level 2 and Level 3 standards.
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