[Zope3-dev] Re: XML header and TAL interpretor

[Gary Poster]

On Aug 31, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Stephan Richter wrote:

> On Wednesday 31 August 2005 10:05, Julien Anguenot wrote:
>
>>> Don't forget that IE will then have an insane tendency to render the
>>> pages wrong.  I don't recall all of the details, but it was  
>>> something
>>> like if the document began with <?xml ?> IE would switch to "quirks
>>> mode" and do funny things with boxes, margins, and the overall  
>>> layout.
>>> The details are in this list's archives (if they aren't it's in the
>>> zope at zope.org list archives).
>>>
>>> (not that I'm a fan of IE, but I do recall that being a problem for
>>> some people)
>>
>> Having IE full of bugs is not a reason to not support standards  
>> such as
>> the xml processing instruction (which makes a document *not* XML  
>> valid
>> if it's not present on top of the document)
>>
>> We'll think about buggy browsers in a second step ;)
>
> If there is an IE issue it needs to be addressed and a solution be  
> found
> before any action can be taken. IE still has the majority market  
> share and we
> cannot be ignorant about it.

+1

Gary