RE: [xsl] Compatibility question

[cknell@xxxxxxxxxx]

Until all browsers implement the same set of technologies you will have to code differently for each. That's why client-side is the wrong approach for this. Someone could (and probably has done) write an abstraction layer that would hide the differences between the browsers, but that only puts the problem at one degree of remove. If browsers change (and they will), or if new browsers appear (and they will), then you will have to be concerned about which version of the abstaction layer software (if any) exists on the client computer.

The right answer is to do this in one place, the server, which you can control, and serve standard HTML to the browsers.
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Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     Camalesn <noelamac@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:49:03 +0200
To:       XSL list <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:  [xsl] Compatibility question

Hello,

Just a simple question:

Is there any way to use a client-side solution (i.e. JavaScript) to
work with XML and XSL(T) and get data available and visible in all
browsers (I mean: Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, Internet Explorer,
Opera, Safari, Konqueror, etc.)?

I find very frustrating using a standard tecnology like XML and XSL
and when triying to put them at work all are about browser problems
and incompatibilities...

:-(

Greetings.