The Mozilla Project has released the Mozilla 1.5, the open source web browser that supports XML, CSS, XSLT, XUL, HTML, XHTML, MathML, SVG, and lots of other crunchy XML goodness. It's available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Besides bug fixes, improvements in 1.5 include,
The Mozilla Project has also posted Firebird 0.7, a standalone web browser based on the same code as Mozilla that does not include chat, e-mail, news reader, or a kitchen. New features in 0.7 include automatic downloads and web panels.
Oracle has released several new versions of their XML Development Kits on a web site that's incompatible with about half of the browsers I tested. First off there's a beta of 10.1.0.1.0A for Windows and Solaris. New features in this release include:
In addition they've posted a bug fix release in the 9.2 series, version 9.2.0.6.0. I'm not sure what bugs they've fixed. Certainly none of the ones that prevent XOM from using their parser. This release is still flunking 39 separate unit tests. The 10.0 beta does a somewhat better job. It only flunks eight tests, mostly involving incorrectly resolving relative URIs. For instance, it cannot parse this URL. (In fairness, neither can most other parsers, including libxml and all versions of Xerces prior to 2.6.) The parser also doesn't handle ignorable white space according to the SAX spec. These XDKs are not open source. Registration is required.