Adopting XML: Tomorrow's Web

Browsers

• Microsoft IE 5

  • Intended for real users to really use.

  • Released now

• Netscape 5 'Gecko'

  • Intended for real users to really use.

  • Still beta, but increasingly functional.

  • Source code available.

• InDelv

  • (Apparently) intended for real users to really use.

  • Looks like a browser.

  • In Java (1.1), so platform independent.

  • Pure XML browser - won't render ill-formed HTML.

  • Beta, still quite buggy.

• Jumbo

  • Demonstrates interesting new functionality not possible with HTML.

  • Edits as well as browses.

  • Extremely counter-intuitive and hard to use

• Fujitsu HyBrick

  • Looks like a browser!

  • Lays out simple documents straightforwardly.

  • All menu text, help text, et cetera, in Japanese.

  • Can't layout any of the documents from the Jumbo or SMIL demos

SGML Browsers may also work.

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