Clips and Links http://clipclip.org/chao/clips/tag/compatablity http://clipclip.org/chao/clips/detail/2285 compatablity Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:49:52 -0000 http://clipclip.org/chao/clips/detail/2285 <div>Clipped by <a href="http://clipclip.org/chao">chao</a> to <span class='c2_activity_link'><a href="http://clipclip.org/activity/view/35/use-ajax-in-my-web-apps">use ajax in my web apps</a></span></div><hr /> <div class="inside" id="article-page"> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="content"> <div class="section" id="article"> <div class="subSection" clipisparent="true" style="caption-side : top;color : rgb(255, 255, 255);cursor : auto;direction : ltr;empty-cells : show;font-family : &apos;trebuchet ms&apos;,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size : 17px;font-size-adjust : none;font-style : normal;font-variant : normal;font-weight : 400;letter-spacing : normal;line-height : normal;list-style-image : none;list-style-position : outside;list-style-type : disc;text-align : start;text-indent : 0px;text-transform : none;white-space : normal;word-spacing : normal;background-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <!--Start Snippet --> <h2> <a href="http://www.dustindiaz.com/rock-solid-addevent/" rel="bookmark" tip="Read the entire post &quot;Rock Solid addEvent()&quot;">Rock Solid addEvent()</a> </h2> <p class="file">Filed under: <a href="http://www.dustindiaz.com/archives/dom/" rel="category tag" tip="View all posts in D.O.M.">D.O.M.</a> </p> <p class="meta">Monday, November 28th, 2005</p> <div class="post"> <p>In the aftermath of the <a href="http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2005/09/addevent_recodi.html" tip="The original announcement by PPK for addEvent() recode entries"> addEvent() recoding contest</a>, a winner <a href="http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2005/10/_and_the_winner_1.html" tip="John Resig was declared the winner with some exceptions"> was announced</a>. It was also <a href="http://particletree.com/" tip="ParticleTree talked about the issues of addEvent and tackled it on their own. Pretty impressive actually">further discussed</a> in the particleTree November issue with another method provided (I won’t discuss it since it’s copyrighted content and it’s for paying customers only <img class="wp-smiley" src="http://www.dustindiaz.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" /> ). However even with all the fuss going on, I’ve taken an innovative approach with some existing methods and combined them into a very powerful function. It also accomplishes these three core issues.</p> <ul> <li>Degrades on older browsers such as NS4 and IE5 mac</li> <li>The <strong>this</strong> keyword remains in-tact</li> <li>Avoids memory leaks in Microsoft Internet Explorer</li> </ul> <p>Since none of this is entirely revolutionary or actually originally written by me, I’m not going to take any further credit other than piecing together what was already out there.</p> </div> <!--End Snippet --> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <style type="text/css">div#c2_inner_2263 h2 a, div#c2_inner_2263 h2 a:visited { color: rgb(80, 255, 76); text-decoration: none; } div#c2_inner_2263 h2 a:hover { color: rgb(4, 195, 0); } div#c2_inner_2263 h2{ margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; } div#c2_inner_2263 #article h2 { font-family: georgia,times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.8em; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: ; } div#c2_inner_2263 .inside #article h2 { font-family: georgia,times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 2.2em; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: ; } div#c2_inner_2263 #article p:first-child:first-line { text-transform: uppercase; } div#c2_inner_2263 #article p:first-child:first-letter { font-size: 300%; }</style> chao