Subject: RE: Netscape 6 lack of XSL support
From: Linda van den Brink <lvdbrink@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 15:19:17 +0200
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> I've got to wonder if
> Tim Bray really
> >said that last line, "XML + CSS is the way to go".
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> Yes, he really said that. It's a little misleading though for
> Netscape to
> be reproducing the remark verbatim, without saying what
> "right now" means.
> Tim's comment actually appeared in an article written for xml.com in
> October *1998*, reviewing the *original* IE5 support for XML-related
> technology.
If anyone's interested, the article is at
http://www.xml.com/pub/98/10/ie5-2.html
Tim's opinion was that Microsoft should have taken care to implement XML+CSS
correctly, instead of or in addition to implementing XSL, which was at that
point a very instable working draft.
Linda
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