Re: [xsl] Client-side cross-platform API

[Rob Belics <rob_belics@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 09:09 -0500, Scott Trenda wrote:
> That's a little unfair; generally their products use the standard's spec if one exists at the time they implement the feature. It'd be more accurate to say that they won't remove support for their existing syntax/architecture when a new one is introduced in a W3C spec.
> 
> ~ Scott
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Belics [mailto:rob_belics@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:50 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Client-side cross-platform API
> 
> On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 20:32 -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 23:58 +0000, Michael Kay wrote:
> > 
> > > It seems there is one API for Microsoft and one for everyone else
> > I've often wondered why we (W3C) don't standardise one or the other...
> > 
> > Liam
> > 
> Because Microsoft will always be on the opposing side.
> 

As a web developer, I follow the HTML/browser goings-on. Microsoft has
been on the opposite side with javascript, css, and, recently, the html5
working group. Showing up years late, after all the other browser
vendors have signed off on things, they typically write up a long list
of opposing views. 

I don't want to degrade this into a flamefest but that was the reason
for my comment.