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Discussion on: Web development before standards and open browsers

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Nick Taylor

Back in the day too, didn't Opera support document.all as well? So you had to do some extra checks to ensure it was IE. Mind you user agent checks were all the rage. Or document.attachListener vs. document.addEventListener... the list goes on an on. πŸ˜„

I don't know if you still have the big DHTML book or not, but I gave mine away in 2016. It was thicker than my wood cutting board! πŸ˜†

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