Venom_vbulletin3_import6989
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I'm thinking of developing an ecommerce site with .net but need to reach the general public. Can you use the .Net framework w/o using XML? I heard only ie 5 can consistently parse the W3C XML standard. Is .Net a good choice in terms of browser compatibility?Yes, ASP.net is server side code so browser compatibility is not as much an issue. I think if you start using ASP.net you will see how great it is..Net mainly uses XML as a means of retrieving and sending data. the browser never touches the XML. by the time the code is processed and outputted to the browser, it's basically straight HTML with some JavaScript (if you do a "view source" on any .aspx page, you'll see that it's all common HTML code). i think the only cross-browser compatability issues you'll run into are the CSS styles that are incorporated with things like the DataGrid control which rely heavily on them. i know older versions of Nutscrape don't support a lot of the CSS standard which .Net takes advantage of.