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Re: Bad News on IE6 XML Support

• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@g...>
• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• 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 If people use outdated software and take outdated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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