The Web Standards
Project (WaSP) has praised Microsoft for its "thorough
implementation" of HTML and CSS1 in the Macintosh version of
IE5, but urged them to follow through with XML and DOM.
Jeffrey Zeldman, the leader of the grassroots coalition
of
Web developers and users, praised IE5 on the Mac, "IE5/Mac
offers the highest real-world standards compliance of any
browser
yet shipped".
The WaSP wasn't so fulsome about XML support, however.
Tim
Bray commented:
XML 1.0 has been stable since February 1998; it is long
past time for
browser makers to finish the job of supporting it... Today's
browsers,
however sophisticated, are still more or less FTP with
pictures. The way
to change that is to implement XML and the DOM (neither by
itself is
sufficient), and we're still waiting for that to happen.
Update: The full WaSP
press release is now available on Yahoo news.