Comments on: script language attribute / JavaScript version

By: Marko Mrdjenovic

Marko Mrdjenovic — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:29:47 +0000

The idea of testing for methods is good when you’re sure what your baseline is. The problem is that with mobile devices you’re never sure what the baseline is.

A very nice example is Blackberry (7290 I think) that supports JavaScript but you can’t really know what version/metods – some scripts just don’t work. And I don’t really wish to check for everything I need in a script…

By: Arjsn Eising

Arjsn Eising — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:48:21 +0000

Why testing on JavaScript version? It is better to test if a method or object is present, and then use it.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:01:22 +0000

yeah, this was a nice idea at the time, but since MSIE’s “version” of IE differed greatly from the *real* version of JavaScript, this attribute was useless.

You’re better off, to do some very minor browser sniffing, then cater your code where req’d to a particular browser.

e.g. if you are trying to set the style attribute via DOM methods… add logic that if the browser is IE, to set the ‘cssText’ attribute instead (since IE doesn’t follow the spec here)