Felipe Gasper wrote: >> Products that support a standard are often not updated to support future >> versions of that standard. >> >> This is actually the typical case in product development. >> >> Products which are constantly updated to support every new version of >> every >> standard they supported at some point are the exception. > > > Hmm....IE was updated to support HTML 4, SQL servers updated for SQL99, > C compilers updated to support ANSI C, RSS readers for new versions of > that standard .... and if you consider software libraries like Xlib, > GTK, etc. to be "standards", then software using those libraries becomes > another example. Am I missing something? > MSIE still doesn't support XHTML correctly at its current version (it treats XHTML sent with the text/html MIME type as HTML, but doesn't understand the correct MIME type application/xhtml+xml nor does it actually run XHTML files through the XML filter - XHTML files which are not well-formed XML don't throw a parser error nor does it parse the ' entity in XHTML files) and also lacks a lot of support for CSS2. According to MS the MSIE will cease to exist as a standalone program in the near future anyway. Neither Opera nor Mozilla support the entire CSS 2 standard. No browser that I know of correctly applies the XML MIME RFC, which demands that any unknown MIME type, registered or not, with the +xml suffix is to be treated as XML if the browser supports XML (application/x-foo+xml should be treated as application/xml, same for image/fancyxmlthingy+xml, etc). Some projects tend to adopt a lot of standards over time (the guys at Mozilla should be mentioned here), but I know of none that supports every standard it should support. - apReceived on Thursday, 25 March 2004 08:14:20 GMT
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