Comments on: document.all and Opera

By: j_sk

j_sk — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:54:54 +0000

These are rather good news.
Keep shining.

By: Ayush

Ayush — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:45:52 +0000

@Berend Ytsma
But I can’t understand how cloaking document.all allows site that need document.all to use it.
See http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=5063

By: Berend Ytsma

Berend Ytsma — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:06:01 +0000

As far as I understand. this metod is an experiment to see if opera’s
way can make more site send right code, and if this experiment would fail.
Then there’s always the Safari or/and Firefox way, AFAIS this could be a win win situation.

But I can’t understand how cloaking document.all allows site that need document.all to use it.
is this on the principle that if a site needs it, it’s just there, even when You can’t see it, and what if a site tries to detect it, can it be found then?

By: GT500

GT500 — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:43:41 +0000

Good response.

By: loldog

loldog — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:32:47 +0000

Because maybe Firefox isn’t the be all end all Überbrowser? Maybe it can be done better than Firefox?

By: lolcat

lolcat — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:25:24 +0000

“We don’t do quite what Safari or Mozilla do either” (quote from Hallvors blog)

why? why create another minority group that for sure is going to be completly ignored instead of jumping the firefox bandwagon?

By: Gongo

Gongo — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:20:27 +0000

Albeit i’ve seen some slowdown in the last build

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:17:58 +0000

I don’t really understand this document.all business but this all sounds good.

By: GT500

GT500 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:23:18 +0000

A good addition to Opera. It probably should have been done in Merlin as well, but it’s still better late than never.

Pass on my thanks to Opera’s devs for implementing this (even if it doesn’t directly affect me).