the name of IE's javascript engine?

[theRatWonder]

You know how Mozilla's javascript engine is called "gecko". And so whenever I want to know if an object has a property or method I just put "gecko dom" into my firefox location bar and it takes me to this page:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Gecko_DOM_Reference

Does anyone know if the Internet Explorer javascript engine has a name that I could search on? Or if there's a similarly useful reference for it (the IE javascript engine)?

Thanks.
Robin.

[LeeU]

You're better off using object detection (http://www.quirksmode.org/js/support.html). It works much better and you won't have to change it when the browsers change.

[gil davis]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/1e9b3876-3d38-4fd8-8596-1bbfe2330aa9.asp

[theRatWonder]

Thanks gil. That's really helpful (apart from I hate hate hate the layout of msdn, but I guess I can live with it).

Lee, I completely agree, one should always use object detection, but if I want to provide support for objects in the IE model then I need to know what those objects, methods and properties are called, which is why I need the reference.

[LeeU]

Ooop! I misread. I see what you wanted now. ;->

[theRatWonder]

no problem :P