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On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, 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. > > The soonest we could have this fix available would be the MSXML SP3 > release (SP2 already shipped with IE6 and Windows XP). So SP3 is the SP > currently in development. I can't give a definite date for SP3, and > there is always the possibility that natural disaster or something else > could change plans. These are the standard "God-willing" disclaimers, > though; we are committed to doing both of these things. That seems like a feasible solution since it at least lets end users know that there _is_ a problem with the underlaying XML and MS recognizes that there is a problem. Thank you. -- Benjamin Franz Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. ---Abelson and Sussman
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