Re: XSL in IE5

David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> > Be fair, David: it is a pre-release.
> 
> Wasn't it fair?
> 
> People have been asking Microsoft to put clearer notices on their XSL
> web pages pointing out that the XSL recommendation came out after IE5
> shipped and ended up being different to the XSL in IE5 since before
> MSXML3 was even announced.
> 
> They could now additionally point to the pre-release but that is a
> separate issue, the main issue is to avoid user confusion over the
> default IE5 installation. It is not Microsofts fault that the
> specification changed, and its not really their fault that they have
> distributed a few orders of magnitude more copies of their xsl system
> than anyone else. But it is their fault that they haven't highlighted
> the differences on their standard pages. The webrelease pages are
> clear. But if you know enough to look there, you are not confused.

David, I never used XML, let alone XSL or XPath, before last month.
I'd no idea where to look for specs or code, other than w3c, but a
basic web search turned up MSXML, and as they're members of the w3c
I figured they'll eventually be kosha on this (don't mention J++).

Anyway, the print can't have been that small: I've got 17% vision ;)

Enough of this silliness from me, I'll butt out now.

Cheers,
lee 


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Lee Goddard  <l.goddard@sussex>
Research Centre for Cognitive Science, 
University of Sussex, Brighton UK


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