Subject: Re: [xsl] browsers with XSL capabilities From: Peter Flynn <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 16:22:07 +0000 |
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, you wrote: > For an editor's application requiring something as pervasive as a MS browser > does not seem to be hard to swallow. No, but making an application wholly dependent on a single manufacturer's product may mean sacrificing some future flexibility. > I have been working with open source products (xalan, xerces) for display > and with Interwoven as the content management/entry tool and it sucks! > Perhaps it is that our implementors cannot create a usable gui (totally > possible) but I have not seen any user friendly systems for entering content > (and I have looked) that will end up as XML. It is a major failing. epcEdit (www.tksgml.de) is late beta. Needs some work still but extremely promising and already very usable. Runs tcl so it is also cross-platform. > Standards are great and I am all for them unless they can't do what I need > them to do. I doubt if it is the standards themselves which are to blame for lack of software choice. Vendors only make what sells (well, in theory :-) but they are sometimes rather behind the leading edge. > I would love an open source alternative. Perhaps Netscape 8 (probably their > next release) will have something close. And perhaps they can get Netscape > to display itself before I can go to the bathroom and come back. Unlikely. They are paying the penalty for refusing to listen: it's been something of a tradition with them since Mosaic was spun off. ///Peter XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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