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Message: [QUOTE="Peter Michaux, post: 4966798"] I don't know what I've read that was written by Jim himself. Are there any particular articles? Are you sure they are heading in the wrong direction? I don't think that is really the case. The libraries do slowly remove sniffs when learn about a better way. I think that many programmers want to do the right thing but don't know how to do it. I've gathered information about feature detection and cross-browser scripts from members of this group over the past couple years. The knowledge here is the best available on the Internet but I think it is true that the responses to questions can sometimes be too blunt and/or rude. I survived this abuse and appreciate being given straight answers. But imagine a person who is interested in learning something new but is slightly insecure about being seen making mistakes. I think just one response on c.l.js may send them running. This is a shame because they loose out, others loose out by hearing c.l.js is a bunch of trolls and the browser scripting profession doesn't benefit from the group. To a certain degree the group's behavior impedes one apparent goal of improving the over all standard of browser scripting. It doesn't mean people with bad code need to be congratulated but they don't need to read responses about how stupid they are etc. I'm attempting to leak some of the information I've gathered from the group about browser scripting to the "outside world". I've posted a couple articles on my blog and hope they have a decent number of visitors. More articles will help spread the word. Not everyone is going to come here for the information. Peter [/QUOTE]

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