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Re: [LUG] Browser war II (Was: (Another rant) [Fwd: Microsoft shuts down Windows 98])

 

On Wednesday 12 July 2006 18:21, Simon Waters wrote:
> Have you check how well they do on that score?

not acurately.  they sorted out the bits that really bugged me like a native 
XMLHttpRequest, XPath + XSLT support.  i've not played much than ensure all 
of our client side apps still work correctly without the IE 6 hacks put in 
palace which they seem to fine (so no more hacks for IE, even on advanced 
client side JS sites, weee).

> As far as I could figure out from the documentation they were filling in
> a few gaps on the CSS level 2 support, but it didn't look like the major
> standards were being advanced much at all (SVG, Xforms etc). Of course
> some, or all of these maybe done with plug-ins, but that isn't ideal.

On this note, see:

 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83948

please vote for it if you feel strongly enough to care, too ;)

aaaanyway, 

IMO Gecko is currently the most advanced mainstream HTML rendering engine 
around, and i've never said otherwise :-)

 ~ Theo

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