XML News from Thursday, May 19, 2005

From the browser that wouldn't die department, Netscape has released version 8.0 of its namesake web browser for Windows. Surprisingly mac OS X and Linux have been pretty much abandoned. Netscape 8 chooses between the IE and the Gecko rendering engines based on the trustworthiness of asite. Trusted sites are displayed using the Windows built-in IE HTML renderer. Untrusted sites are displayed using Gecko. (Personally I'd prefer to use Gecko exclusively, but then that's why I use Firefox.) Presumably Netscape 8 supports XML, XSLT, XHTML, HTML, and so forth because the underlying engines do. New features include