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Re: Microsoft's deeply cynical appeal to"standards compliance"

• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@g...>
• To: Edd Dumbill <edd@u...>
• Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 00:01:57 +0200

* Edd Dumbill wrote:
>[[ "We do identify the string from the browser, and the only issue that
>we have is that the Opera browser doesn't support the latest XHTML
>standard," said Visse. "So we do suggest to those users that they go
>download a browser that does support the latest standards." ]]
>
>    (Incidentally, does anyone recall that IE6 has proper XHTML support,
>    I remember the Microsoft chap at WWW10 saying directly XHTML support
>    wouldn't make it into version 6).

XHTML support in IE6 is absent. In fact, using XHTML on the World Wide
Web today is close to impossible while claiming compliance to anything.
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