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So he should shut down http://www.bayes.co.uk/xml/ ? I don't understand what you are saying about "a small percentage of immaculately configured machines"? Isn't 99% of what people use for browsers today far less "fat" than what is required for client-side XSLT? I have noticed a ton of CSS on the Internet. Quite common amongst blogs, for example. Some even go so far as to detect what form of browser you're using and send appropriate content. Of course only time (and the actions of large companies such as AOL and Microsoft) will tell, but I think there is fantastic potential for client-side XSLT and it will be like other "modern" technologies such as JavaScript (or do you use that yet?): detect whether they have it, and if so, take advantage of it, within the limits of their implementation. The closer to compliance with a spec most implementations are the better for everybody, but being ready for multiple bad implementations is certainly nothing new in coding for the web. XSLT will flourish on the client, now that there are at least two attempts at it out there. Max http://www.siliconpublishing.com -----Original Message----- From: XML Everywhere [mailto:host@x...] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:51 PM To: xml-dev Subject: Re: Bad News on IE6 XML Support Client-side XSL? What are you smoking? XSL is fat client technology. It will only work on a very small percentage of immaculately configured machines. In other words, almost NONE. Don't expect the browser vendors to fix this either. HTML will be replaced by full motion video before that happens (i.e., NEVER). The last thing I want to see on a website is "this page best viewed with Opera and Saxon" or some nonsense like that. Chances are your content isn't vital enough to justify installing new software. I'll just click somewhere else, thank you. Doubtful I am unique in that respect. MAYBE there is a dumbed-down version of CSS that works on all browsers on all platforms. Maybe. But there is no version of XSL that even comes close. The only display technology that has nearly as much "reach" as HTML 3.0 is Flash. XSLT is great. Just don't do it on the client. Transform your XML on the server. Otherwise, you and your visitors are in for a lot of broken pages. Don't wait for IE 10 to have a "compliant" processor, whatever that is. Like CSS, XSLT will forever be a moving target. Learn from the problems of Java on the client and stick with HTML 3 and (perhaps) Flash.
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