Hi there,
IE is certainly well behind Mozilla in implementing CSS, but its XSL parser is better than Mozilla's (by which I mean it's significantly faster, and appears to implement the standard at least as well). Doing client-side XSL transformations of large documents, you notice the difference in the wait time on Mozilla. However, Moz has been closing the gap with its last two versions, and when Mozilla's SVG implementation finally makes it into the standard build, it'll be a giant-killer. XML + XSLT -> XHTML + JavaScript + CSS + SVG is a killer combination for creating cool documents and GUIs. Not to mention the fact that Moz does MathML as well.
Opera and Safari lack XSLT engines, which is a shame, and only Moz seems to have serious intentions about SVG.
My 2 cents, Martin
At 04:18 PM 24/06/2004, you wrote:
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Somebody a little while ago mentioned that IE 6 was better than previous version of Internet Explorer in its adherence to standards. We were talking at the time about XSL.
In my experience the browser is quite poor at implementing other standards (e.g. CSS [Cascading Style Sheets]). Has this been other users' experience? It is particularly noticeable now that most other browsers are pretty good. It seems to be an odd version of the 80:20 rule, except in this case that 80 percent of users use the browser that is least standards compliant while 80% of browsers probably are.
-dan
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