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Re: XML+CSS, DENG (was: Re: InfoPath,OpenOffice, XFo

• To: "Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer" <schnitz@m...>
• Subject: Re: XML+CSS, DENG (was: Re: InfoPath,OpenOffice, XForms (Was: Low-end Office 1 1won't do user schemas)
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 06:58:37 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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• References: <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EE022DC133@h...><1050347502.17068.57.camel@frank> <0db001c302ba$8a24dc70$fc45a8c0@c020>

>Flash 6 required - rendering W3C XML+CSS content, only,
>e.g. enabling IE6 to do full XML+CSS support, with the least
>possible deployment cost, as Flash is, as a matter of fact, the most
>widely spread browser plug-in, especially on Windows/IE6.

Perhaps its the most widespread. Its hardly ubiquitous though, and 
will become less so as time passes. I'd say this works in less than 
half of the browsers I regularly use. In fact, of my three main 
computers Flash is installed on 1 of them. I haven't gone to any 
effort to remove it. In a couple of cases, I've gone to considerable 
effort to add it.

What I see in the field doesn't come close to matching what web 
designers think their audience has installed.  I suspect there's a 
huge self-selection effect operating here, where large parts of the 
reading public simply avoid sides that use Flash.
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• References:
  • RE: InfoPath, OpenOffice, XForms (Was: Low-end Office 1 1 won't do user schemas)
    • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
  • RE: InfoPath, OpenOffice, XForms (Was: Low-end Office 1 1won't do user schemas)
    • From: Frank <frank@t...>
  • XML+CSS, DENG (was: Re: InfoPath, OpenOffice, XForms (Was: Low-end Office 1 1won't do user schemas)
    • From: "Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer" <schnitz@m...>

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