:developerWorks: Migrate Apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla
developerWorks: Migrate Apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Aug 1, 2005, 05 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (12733 reads) (Other stories by Doron Rosenberg)
"When Netscape started the Mozilla browser, it made the conscious decision to support W3C standards. As a result, Mozilla is not fully backwards-compatible with Netscape Navigator 4.x and Microsoft Internet Explorer legacy code; for example, Mozilla does not support as I will discuss later. Browsers, like Internet Explorer 4, that were built before the conception of W3C standards inherited many quirks. In this article, I will describe Mozilla's quirks mode, which provides strong backwards HTML compatibility with Internet Explorer and other legacy browsers.
"I'll also cover nonstandard technologies, such as XMLHttpRequest and rich text editing, that Mozilla does support because no W3C equivalent existed at the time..."