Jan 13
I Blame Chomsky!
I found this quote when trying to solve my headache of the day. ie. Why does Internet explorer fail to match a regular expression that Firefox has no problem with?
“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.”
The problem with web standards is that everyone has their own.
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That’s easy. Firefox, no doubt, uses the open source version of regular expression processing that’s used in Linux and lots of other places. IE uses something that Microsoft developed themselves.
Quite so. The problem is finding out what their implementation does and if it possible to write regular expressions that work on both.