Re: MSIE and JS DOM

On Thursday 10 October 2002 14:44, Christian Stocker wrote:
> The problem is, as Brian mentioned, that ~94% is using MSIE and not
> everyone likes to install Mozilla or in general new software.

True, but it's not those 94% who create their own content in a Web-based CMS 
application using BXE. Most of them only see the result of BXE editing, i.e. 
XML documents transformed to and cachied as HTML.

I think,
> for getting widespread use and acceptance, BXE has to support MSIE as
> well.

I doubt that, because what you need _now_ is acceptance by the CMS 
adminstrators - and you will get that without problems, because they buy your 
CMS and use it with a Browser free of charge, so no problem.

If you want to prepare BXE to make it usable for the 94%, we should at least 
wait for 6 more months. Then BXE will hopefully behave like a "true" WYSIWYG 
editor. I don't say that because I think Christian is working too bad or too 
slow (rather, the opposit is true), but because it will simply take that 
long, even if we only concentrate on BXE with Mozilla.

It's not a funding issue right now and therefore we will
> concentrate still on Mozilla for the time being and try to get it as
> good as possible on Mozilla.

Puh, I am happy :)))

I just made some MSIE tests for another
> project this morning and I had to share my feelings with this list about
> that :) But we have to keep the MSIE-port in our heads...

Do we? Maybe we should rather push Mozilla forward with BXE becoming a Mozilla 
killer application ...

By the way: I am happy that this discussion did not become a flame war. On 
other lists, my arguments might have caused some ugly feedback. I like this 
list :)

Sandro
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