Js / DOM / HTML questions

[Dan Rathbun]

This is probably aimed at ThomThom:

Does MSIE 8, support DOM Level 3 ?

What I'm I'm wondering is if I can do this, for cross-platform:

document.head

EDIT: "document.head is null or not an object"

instead of:

document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]

.. and the other question is:

Do both Safari (latest ver,) and MSIE 8 support the insertBefore method (which I'd like to use, instead of the appendChild method.)

[thomthom]

hm... I do not remember. I've been using jQuery for the last few years now. It's taken care of most my DOM cross platform worries. I now deal pretty much exclusively with the jQuery API and I just get things done instead of messing about with the awkward DOM API.

Probably not quite the answer you where looking for, but really, using a framework for dealing with the DOM is a completely different world and it'll save your hairs from going grey.

[Dan Rathbun]

I know this.. you've said it before.
This is different... I'm injecting a line (A SINGLE LINE,) of html from the Ruby side

[thomthom]

I see.

Quirks mode is really nice for looking up compatibility:
http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/w3c_core.html#t92

I often just google the keyword followed by "quirksmode" and the top result is usually from quirksmode.org.

[Dan Rathbun]

Holy WoW! That's a great site !

I've been hoping for something like that for Ruby, so we can see when methods are valid.

[Dan Rathbun]

What I'm I'm wondering is if I can do this, for cross-platform:

document.head

OK I understand now (those new MSDN pages are so confusing!)

document.head is part of HTML 5.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7557 ... ch-scripts
and
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/cu ... ument-head