Explorerism

Shamefully winning the first browser war again, by lousily emulating functional collections, XMLDOM, XMLHTTP, XML data island and data binding.

Usage

<script src="explorerism.js" data-globalize-named-elements="oNamedElement, txtTextBox"></script>

Background

I had to work with a system that only supported Internet Explorer (not only that, but using the old quirks mode, which is the Internet Explorer 5.5 document mode). Since I prefer modern browsers (and modern pages and web technologies, but that is a loss cause when the system is not mine), I took the liberty of modernizing the system (or ancienting the browser ;)) by adding as much support as necessary, for modern browsers in a backwards way - emulating old features (using a browser extension to inject my code, for example), instead of modernizing the code (which is out of my control).

Features

This is an incomplete, almost quick and dirty implementation of -

• Functional collections (specifically, window.frames(...), document.frames(...) and Element.prototype.childNodes(...)).
• Globally named elements* (like, window.txtTextBox for <input name="txtTextBox">).
• XML data islands.
• Data binding (using XML data islands).
• ActiveXObject of Microsoft.XMLHTTP and Microsoft.XMLDOM (lousily merged).

*Note that this is done manually, using the data-globalize-named-elements attribute on the <script>.

Browser support

I have only tested Chrome, but it should work in any modern browser, as it uses standard web technologies (please, do file an issue if you find anything nonstandard).