Netscape 8 Clashes IE

Sunday 29 May 2005 @ 3:14 pm

Since the final release of Netscape 8.0 Browser on May 19, 2005, Netscape 8.0 has been facing problems like several publicly known security flaws. Unfortunately, just after a week of the bad news, America Online on Thursday, May 26, 2005, confirmed that a bug in its new Netscape 8 Web browser was breaking certain XML configurations in Microsoft’s IE.

The issue first surfaced on Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer Weblog, where chief IE developer Dave Massy recommended that users completely uninstall Netscape as a possible workaround.

However, AOL spokesman defended that the bug only affects “a very small percentage of IE users” who visit pages using XML technology. I don’t really agree with him as a rapidly growing number of Internet users are using RSS feed to read news, weather reports etc.

Quoted:
According to Microsoft’s Massy, Netscape 8 corrupts the XML rendering capabilities of Internet Explorer, meaning that an IE user navigating to an XML file, such as an RSS feed, is greeted with a blank page.

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