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• To: "Manos Batsis" <m.batsis@b...>,"Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>,"J. David Eisenberg" <catcode@c...>
• Subject: RE: Browser support of XML standards (WAS: RE:Slightly off, but... was: XUL appears to...)
• From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>
• Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:29:39 +0200
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <E657D8576967CF448D6AF22CB42DD26908BFAB@e...>

> From: Manos Batsis [mailto:m.batsis@b...]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:57 AM
> To: Julian Reschke; J. David Eisenberg
> Cc: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  Browser support of XML standards (WAS:
> RE:Slightly off, but... was: XUL appears to...)
>
>
>
> > From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@g...]
>
> > > * The plug-ins have to be specific for each browser (for
> > example activeX
> > > controls in IE). This is the main reason I dislike IE's XML support;
> > > it's not actually in the browser but on a separate dll used
> > as activeX
> > > (msxml).
> >
> > Why does that matter?
>
> Because IE behaves quite differently based on whether it anticipates the
> document as XML or HTML.

Sure. But what you describe is the effect of IE working in two different
"modes", XML and HTML (which sadly tries to handle XHTML as well). But the
fact that the XML parser is external is irrelevant, I'd say...

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