>>in short, yes. MSIE is the regular target of complaints from the web
>>standards community.
I second that.
>>perhaps the response among this group should be the converse of many
>>web developers: develop standards-based texts and applications and
>>require your users to use standards-based browsers.
Succesfullness of a webtool/application is often decided by whether
it's well usable in the most popular browser (which too bad still is
IE). If it's not, users will blame the application, not the browser. So
I wouldn't recommend not making your application IE compatible. One
should do both: implement the standards and provide a IE compatible
version as well.
>>even if IE is parsing XSL better right now, other browsers,
>>particularly mozilla-based browsers, are sure to catch up.
Although I doubt whether IE parses better, I wonder why one wouldn't
just parse server side and sending HTML? For those who want the very
XML, a download button, FTP, or OAI solution may be provided. HTML is
implemented fairly reliable over all browsers, is it? Or do I fail to
see an important point for not parsing XML server side?
grtz,
Joris