Netscape 8 Breaks IE XML

Posted by Zonk on Thursday May 26, 2005 @04:13AM from the thats-an-oops dept.

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."

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What can you expect? by cybersaga · 2005-05-26 04:16 · Score: 0, Troll

What else do you expect with AOL in charge?

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Open Source QA by webappsec · 2005-05-26 04:17 · Score: 0, Troll

Usually doesn't work out that well....
AOL is full of idiots by Dracos · 2005-05-26 04:35 · Score: 0, Troll

The IE/Gecko switching is one of the absolute dumbest ideas ever. EVER. Whoever thought of that should be fired and blacklisted from IT forever, and everyone else who didn't fight it tooth and nail should all be flogged with cat5 cable.

AOL won't be happy until they have utterly destroyed Netscape.