RE: [xml-dev] Browser support of XML standards (WAS: RE:Slightly off, but... was: XUL appears to...)

> From: Julian Reschke [mailto:] 
> 
> > From: Manos Batsis [mailto:]

> > Because IE behaves quite differently based on whether it 
> anticipates the
> > document as XML or HTML.
> 
> Sure. But what you describe is the effect of IE working in 
> two different
> "modes", XML and HTML (which sadly tries to handle XHTML as 
> well). But the
> fact that the XML parser is external is irrelevant, I'd say...

My impression is that the two "modes" are so deeply separated due to the
*nature* of the msxml component, not just the fact that it is external. 

Manos