Subject: RE: asp assistance please (Can we get some POSITIVE suggestions please?) From: "Paulo Gaspar" <paulo.gaspar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 21:34:09 +0200 |
Again, I couldn't agree more. But then, I already posted my bit of prose under the "RE: XSL rendering on IE 5" subject. Have fun, Paulo Gaspar > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dan Morrison > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 13:38 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: asp assistance please (Can we get some POSITIVE suggestions > please?) > > > Ditto. > > Please tone it down - I have found that the XML division of MS is > genuinely well-intentioned, and have done a damn fine job until now of > keeping up AND deploying a product which many folk are actually finding > useful in day-to-day practice. > Whatever you prejudices you may choose to hold, MS is NOT a monolith of > drones, there are more than a few individuals in there trying to do the > right thing, and there's more than the usual proportion in the XML > division this year :-) > > It was ALWAYS understood - by anyone who actually bothered to read up - > that last years MSXML implimentation was only partial - as were most > equivalent products at the time IE4 was released! > The spec didn't even exist then, remember? > > The terms "pre-release", "beta" and "web release" do actually imply > "caveat emptor" (although I too am unsure just what "Web Release" > actually means!) > > > Don't blame the manufacturer for only documenting what they wanted you > to know - blame the dolts who have NEVER visited XML.com or W3C, read > any industry mags or checked out any of the newsgroups or discussion > lists. Complaining you are misinformed is just a case of _willful_ > ignorance, so drop it. > > It doesn't take five minutes of websearching to get aware that there are > compatibility issues between different products. > > C, HTML, Java - some of the most widly deployed 'language standards' > have all and always had platform issues, quirks and work-arounds. Yes > they should be ironed out, but give up knocking the pre-releases. > If anyone ever claims a 100% bug-free money-back guaranteed > fully-compliant parser - sue them. Until then keep the money you paid > out for MSXML (how much was it?) in your pocket. > > ... sorry. I'm just getting fed up with this dead horse being pushed > around the group AGAIN this week. > > .dan. > > :=====================:====================: > : Dan Morrison : The Web Limited : > : http://here.is/dan : http://web.co.nz : > : dman@xxxxxxxx : danm@xxxxxxxxx : > : 04 384 1472 : 04 495 8250 : > : 025 207 1140 : : > :.....................:....................: > : If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy? > :.........................................: > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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