Re: NetScape support over XSL

[Wendell Piez]

> Tom and all,
>
> I've got some honest XSLT that Netscape 6.1 won't handle. The documents
> aren't even that large. On the other hand, the stylesheets use keys and
> possibly other features that may not be at the top of an implementor's
> punchlist.

Yes, it's getting better but it's not really there yet.  It's also a lot
slower than msxml3 for large files (at least, it used to be).  But
relatively straightforward stuff it does fine.

>
> So I can report that though Netscape 6.1 may handle (some) XSLT, your
> mileage may vary. I'm looking forward to a complete, compliant
implementation.
>
> My only other disappointment with NN6.1 (off topic) is that since they've
> changed the plugin API, the Adobe SVG viewer plugin won't work with it (it
> was fine with NN4.*). Too bad. Maybe someone else will come up with SVG
> support in advanced Netscapes. It'd even be nice to see it out of the box.
>
> Otherwise, I quite like it. Maybe I'll try Mozilla too.
>

Mozilla executes complex javascript ***much*** faster than IE (maybe a
factor of five for some code of mine) , and the debugging console actually
gives quite useful information about script errors.  So it's much better for
debugging javascript.  But it's still more fragile than IE:  If I get a lot
of javascript errors, then get the code right, Moz may crash soon after that
(while running corrected code), while IE almost never crashes no matter how
many buggy scripts have been run.  I'm talking about Moz 0.9.4 on Windows 98
here.

Cheers,

Tom P



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