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Re: Bad News on IE6 XML Support
- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 03:27:27 +0200
* Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>IE has massively polluted the XSLT space. Microsoft has taught
>thousands of programmers that XSLT is something it's not.
You can't be serious. If people use outdated software and take outdated
documentation serious, it's their problem, not the vendors one.
>Opera and Mozilla have a few missing pieces here and there, but
>overall their conformance with CSS2 is in the 95%+ range. They
>can reasonably claim that what they miss is a bug. I'd rate IE
>in the <50% range. Not the same thing at all. Navigator, Mozilla,
>and Opera are much further along with CSS support than IE is.
I don't see any good reason to measure conformance to something,
Microsoft doesn't pretend to implement.
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