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Hello Bjoern, Speaking on the subject of IE vs Mozilla as an AJAX platform, I would say that overall IE has several advantages over Mozilla. I know that it's taboo to say that and probably my it's probably something to be categorized as "non-speak" by Huxelians :-) Anyway here are the facts (I know some people hate facts :-) ) A) debugging an XML document transformed into HTML+javascript is easier to do on IE. Why? On IE, most of the time I can step into javascript code after an XSLT transformation. Something I cannot do with mozilla and Venkman. In mozilla you need to transform the document separately before debugging. Bottom line: most costly to develop full AJAX applications in Mozilla. B) The rendition is easier on IE. For instance, resizing is automatically handled most of the time in IE but not necessarily in Mozilla. I can provide use case if needed. I would that the best debugging tools I found for IE are the Office javascript editor/debugger or the Studio environment. Both allow XSLT transformation before stepping into the code and both supports drag and drop of variable or expression into the watch area. In Venkman you need to retype the variable or the expression in the watch area. Also, because it is still in alpha since a veeeeery long time, the latest incarnation refuses to work when you type a new variation saying that it cannot load the treeView component. To resolve this you need to re-install the debugger. I can hardly say that it is a productive environment. It's clear that IE is actually superior to Mozilla when you want to do serious AJAX and XML+XSLT transformations. The full power of AJAX can be achieved when you directly access the DB, get directly an XML document, transform it into an HTML construct, let's say for example a treeView, and add behavior to it with javascript. Any environment that allows me to do it more efficiently is a better environment. Actually only IE make the cut, not Mozilla. Off course, If I have plenty of time and do not want to be productive that's another story, Mozilla is sufficient enough. But I have more important things in life than saying to the emperor that his clothes are the most beautiful things on earth when in fact he is naked. It is also more honest. It's probably time to say when the emperor has no clothes no? Cheers Didier PH Martin PS: To be fair with Mozilla, I can say that it has less memory leaks than IE. But I would say that its error handling mechanism is weaker than IE. Mozilla is easier to break than IE.
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