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Focus event handler run in different order in IE than Firefox

I wanted to document a bit of an edge case browser incompatibility that I found: that event handlers aren’t always run in the same order in IE as they do in other browsers. It’s a bit of a strange case where we were doing something not entirely sensible. :) There was an input box which [...]
Published in Browser quirks on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

DOM-created radio buttons don't work in IE6

*sigh* This is a nasty little known problem with IE when creating radio buttons using document.createElement(). IE actually creates the buttons, but they can’t actually be selected by the user. The problem is that aparently IE doesn’t let you set the name attributes of elements after they’ve been created. If you update the name attribute, [...]
Published in Browser quirks on Saturday, October 23rd, 2004