Subj : Re: XML declaration broken going from Mozilla 1.8a6 to 1.8b
To   : Brendan Eich
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Sun Mar 13 2005 09:44 pm

Brendan Eich wrote:

> Hacking to match one implementation is what IE did to beat Netscape, and 
> what we do (selectively, not across the board) to regain market from IE 
> now.  Too much of this makes a mess that serves no one's interests.  It 
> would be much better to fix the spec first, then change code.  I am 
> trying to do that right now, with ECMA TG1.


Initial reaction from one TG1 member: "I told [his company's] QA 
engineer that '<?xml ...?><x></x>' should be an error, for now."

More as this develops.

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