On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 09:32 -0500, Ricky Zhou wrote: > [snip] The reason that IE isn't supporting XHTML yet (as the IE > blog says: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/09/15/467901.aspx) is > as follows: > "... if we tried to support real XHTML in IE 7 we would have ended up > using our existing HTML parser (which is focused on compatibility) and > hacking in XML constructs. It is highly unlikely we could support > XHTML well in this way; in particular, we would certainly not detect a > few error cases here or there, and we would silently support invalid > cases." > They will be supporting XHTML once they have a parser that actually > takes advantage of it, so the progress is already coming. At this > point, there's already no way that IE can avoid supporting XHTML in > future versions, so we don't have to worry about the progress issue.
Oh, come on. If they'd wanted to have an XHTML parser they'd have one. They plainly do not care for one. -- m -- Mariano Suárez-Alvarez http://www.gnome.org/~mariano _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
