Netscape 8 Breaks IE XML

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has alerted users that Netscape's latest browser appears to break the XML rendering capabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Dave Massy, a senior programme manager for IE, warned users in a blog posting that after installing Netscape 8, IE will render XML files as a blank page, including XML files that have an XSLT transformation. What a week for Netscape 8.0; first the browser needed several fixes hours after its release, then it was discovered that without IE installed, Netscape 8.0 will not install, and now IE needs Netscape uninstalled to work."

Comments

Finally, IE the way I want it.

[yotto]

*IE needs Netscape uninstalled to work.* /me runs out to install Netscape 8.

Re:You're outta here!

[downsize]

1. Netscape browser needed several fixes hours after its release. 2. Netscape browser will not install unless IE is installed. 3. Installation of Netscape breaks IE.

too bad for #2 otherwise, it sounds like something I would want to enforce an update for all domain users :-} - although, since IE is installed by default....

Un(evil)

[xbhatti]

Having a hard time. Who is evil here?

Breaks IE?

[taijirad]

So, does this mean IE was working before?

Re:Selective Slashdot Acceptance

[TommydCat]

If I recall correctly, your submission came up as a blank screen...

Re:Selective Slashdot Acceptance

[ari_j]

You didn't spell it "senior programme manager" is all. How can the editors get wet over a story when you spell everything correctly? (Note to the people who think "programme" is the correct spelling - no, it's not. A "senior program manager" at Microsoft is an American job and deserves an American spelling.)

/imperial march

[Rs_Conqueror]

without IE installed, Netscape 8.0 will not install, and now IE needs Netscape uninstalled to work."

Microsoft couldn't have planned it better themselves...

Re:You're outta here!

[0x461FAB0BD7D2]

You're thinking that Netscape 8 breaking IE is a flaw, while it's clearly a feature. Hence, #3 is not a strike, it's a home-run.

So it breaks IE????

[darkonc]

I think I'll just quietly install NS8 on all of my clients' boxes before they fix this 'feature'.
No need to tell them about it, though... Just leave them using Firefox.

Re:Does anyone use it?

[jeff_schiller]

According to someone in the IE Blog, AOL "outsourced development of NS8 to a company called Mercurial Communications. "

Could it be true?

[jeffphil]

!seineew era sreenigne epacsteN :)

Re:And you're too slow!

[Anonymous Coward]

So you're the jerk that makes my boss require me to make netscape 4.7 compatible web pages. :p

The biggest unanswered question is...

[guttergod]

If it already is broken, do you *really* break it?

Smells funny...

[FhnuZoag]

Really, just looking at the Microsoft Fanboys referenced in that article.

"Internet Explorer (7?) is all I need."

"Honestly, the rubbish you [Microsoft] have to put up with... my heart goes out to you guys. Keep up the good work with IE7"

Yes, people, we are eulogising about software that hasn't even been released yet.

I thought the point with Netscape is that it is meant to be an IE-replacement - hence the render using IE engine feature. Whether it respects an obsolete, badly coded application it is designed to get rid of is kinda irrelevant.

Obviously, this is a bug that needs to be fixed, but let's not start burying Netscape yet. More competition is always good.

Re:Does anyone use it?

[ThePromenader]

I use it only for testing pages, and sometimes to look at complicated source code 'cause it makes it into pretty rainbows : )

All right for the thumbs-up/thumbs-down comments, but perhaps these would have a little more weight if one could understand HOW one application can break another? I haven't found a word about it here nor in the article. What exactly is the modified "common" dependancy (file?) that makes them incompatible?

No big deal

[dtfinch]

IE already renders a great number of XML pages as blank, without the help of Netscape.

Workaround

[taped2thedesk]

I believe that the current workaround is to use Netscape.

Re:Selective Slashdot Acceptance

[ari_j]

"Tortured sentence structure," indeed. This from a person who (1) fails to realize that a poorly-written Slashdot post cannot be expected to be properly capitalized, and relies on capitalization in the story blurb to determine meaning, (2) incorrectly capitalizes "Job Title," and (3) writes "Which it isn't." as a sentence and paragraph to itself, after another purported sentence which is in fact a misplaced clause and before yet another that misspells "capitalization" (or is too British to receive any attention).

Yes, my sentence structure is indeed tortured. It's tortured by idiots like you who see fit to be pedantic without the requisite knowledge.

Slashdot is predominantly a news site located in, based from, and operated primarily by people residing in the United States. On the front page of any news source, it is always nice if the language used is consistent within that page. But at least it's not ABC News, where this story managed to discover a previously unknown word: Artical (see the caption under the photograph).

Re:Selective Slashdot Acceptance

[ari_j]

Is it the British spelling that makes Indian people impossible to understand when they speak, or is there some other factor there?

Re:And you're too slow!

[g0at]

Repeat after me: Netscape, Is, Now, Just, A, Brand.

Per, haps, but, I, always, find, gratuitious, punctu, ation, to, be, annoying?

-b

Re:Does anyone use it?

[surefooted1]

Near his "any key."

All your bugs are belong to us

[hritcu]

Netscape: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Netscape: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Firefox: How are you gentlemen !!
Firefox: All your bugs are belong to us.
Firefox: You are on the way to destruction.
Netscape: What you say !!
Firefox: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Firefox: HA HA HA HA ....