Fwd: RE: IE6 and Fragments

[Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>]

CGM Open Members --

Bad news from Microsoft.

I'm not sure if it will do any good, but those of you with large 
organizations could try to influence the "priority" -- expression of your 
extreme displeasure would tend to raise the priority, I would think.

Regards,
-Lofton.

>Subject: RE: IE6 and Fragments
>Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:08:33 -0700
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>From: "Pablo Fernicola" <pablofe@microsoft.com>
>To: "Lofton Henderson" <lofton@rockynet.com>
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>The fix was pre-empted due to higher priority work items and a number of
>other more serious issues that needed to be addressed.  The fix to this
>problem will not make it into the IE 6 release.
>
>-Pablo
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lofton Henderson [mailto:lofton@rockynet.com]
>Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 8:30 AM
>To: Pablo Fernicola
>Cc: Dieter
>Subject: IE6 and Fragments
>
>Hello Pablo,
>
>The minutes of our collaboration of last year, on the IE bug for
>handling
>"#" fragments, show that it was scheduled to be fixed in IE6, which is
>to
>be released late this year.  The BHO workaround helped us get through
>the
>past year, but it is really not a long-term options.  Recall, this is a
>serious bug for multi-content Web documents that use either WebCGM or
>the
>pending SVG recommendations.
>
>One of our OASIS/CGMO members -- ITEDO software -- has been working with
>
>Beta IE6.  He says the "#" fragment bug is still manifest.
>
>Could you please clarify to us, what are the plans for fixing it before
>release of IE6?
>
>Regards,
>Lofton Henderson
>CGM Open Program Director
>
>
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Lofton Henderson
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Phone:  303-449-8728
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