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Re: Status on IE6 and XML Conformance

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:53:44 -0400

On 10 Sep 2001 13:18:59 -0700, Joshua Allen wrote: 
> OK, here is the current plan of record for us to address the two
> important conformance issues that have been raised:
> 
> Q) IE rejects characters above 0x10000.
> A) This is just plain bug, and we are going to fix this.
> 
> Q) IE doesn't crash on control characters.
> A) We are planning to still allow these to be displayed, but flag them
> as 
>    "not well-formed" using Julian's or a similar style sheet, so that
> the 
>    user knows there is a problem.

Hurray!  Given that commitment, I can cope with the usual delays in
software distribution, and will stop complaining.  (About these,
anyway.)

Simon St.Laurent

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