Web Devout tidings

I finally sat down and finished the standards support information for Opera 9.

Opera 9 shows some major improvements in key areas. The CSS information was discussed earlier, and here are some of the HTML and DOM support highlights:

• Various minor HTML support fixes.
• Support for Document.adoptNode().
• Improvements to XML namespace support in DOM Core.
• Support for Node.textContent.
• Improvements to DocumentType (document.doctype) and Notation and Entity interfaces.
• Huge improvements in DOM Level 2 Style, surpassing Firefox 1.5’s support in some areas. Includes near complete implementation of DOM Level 2 StyleSheets and most of DOM Level 2 CSS (excluding the CSSValue interface, a number of other interfaces related to CSS property values, DocumentCSS, and DOMImplementationCSS).

According to the tables, HTML/XHTML support has increased by under 1% and DOM support has increased by 6%. The tables now put Opera 9’s overall DOM support above Firefox 1.5’s: 84% compared to 79%, with Internet Explorer 7 at 51%.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 at 00:51 UTC and is filed under Browser releases, Browsers, Standards support, Web Devout. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.