Subject: Re: Microsoft XSL and Conformance From: "Juergen Hermann" <jhe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:32:54 +0100 |
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 01:36:55 -0800, Andrew Kimball wrote: >As I receive feedback from the XSL community, I've been surprised at how >vocal and passionate people are about conformance (of course, people also If you work in a multi-platform, multi-browser, multi-compiler world (i.e., not ONLY Microsoft ;), you would be passionate, too. My major requirements for such wide-spread (read: cannot avoid them, they're used out there) tools as IE5 are: a) be conformant as fast as possible and as close as possible b) if you extend, provide a means to switch it OFF (globally, and per-document) c) if b) is not possible for any reason, make it transparent (i.e. you lose some feature, but it still basically works) Especially b) is a thing that always bugged me about IE5, namely its tendency to look at the URI extension first, when it should look at the Content-Type. Practical consequence: When you serve a PDF from an XML source (via Cocoon), NetScape displays it properly using the PDF plugin, and IE (tada!) shows an empty page. I did not use Netscape for over a year, btw, until I started doing XML. Ciao, Jürgen -- Jürgen Hermann (jhe@xxxxxxxxxxx) WEB.DE AG, Amalienbadstr.41, D-76227 Karlsruhe Tel.: 0721/94329-0, Fax: 0721/94329-22 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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