Avoid the dirty death of the browser

Question

Over the past few months, I have been working on a great web application. Repeatedly, we wrote code that, according to the DOM and JS specifications, should work fine, but still manages to completely kill one or more of our test browsers. We recently released pure JavaScript code, which was supposed to be harmless, but causes the generation of Error Protection in IE8, other code fragments that completely freeze Safari, etc.

Well, we will solve every problem, by elements, with as much blood, sweat and code as needed. But the question I have in mind is this: is there a knowledge base about such browsers? Something comparable to quirksmode.org, but with recommendations on how to encode things so as not to kill our browsers?

Thank.

edit Accuracy: not that it changes anything in the question, but we use jQuery.

Answer 1

You may have already walked along this road, but most of the major libraries such as jQuery , Prototype , YUI , Closure , or any of several others will encounter most of these problems and will encode them around for you already.

Answer 2

DOM/JS, T.J. . DOM API .

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