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From: Andrew Layman <andrewl@m...> >This mailing list occasionally has messages that note some feature or >behavior of a Microsoft product, observe that it conflicts with the author's >opinion on how the world should be organized, and impute some fiendish, >nefarious and usually obscure motive to Microsoft. I don't generally >comment on these. That does not mean that I believe they have merit; rather >that I am very busy working with Satan and the International Trilateral >Commission on an enigmatic master plan for global domination. Are you saying that if IE5 treats content like: <?xml encoding="UTF-8"?> as though the contents are a processing instruction (when CSS is used) that this is really a matter of "opinion on how the world should be organized"? I would have thought Microsoft would have wanted to distance itself from claims that it was providing gratuitous incompatibilities, given the Java fiasco. Getting delimiters right is a fairly basic thing: will there be a bug fix for this soon? If not, then it is a company decision to support non-spec product. I am a big fan of IE5; but what is the point of beta testing if the results are ignored for these kind of basic things...it suggests that Microsoft does not have systematic testing in place, or at least that it does not have sufficient programmer resources to handle all the bugs that thay find, or that it produces software which is too complex for the team sizes it uses. Rick Jelliffe xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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