Yes, you can use the HTML namespace, but only if you use the prefix html , which is terrible in various respects I won't go into right now. In short, XML support made its debut broken and misimplemented, as was expected. Let's move on. DOM support in IE5 is lousy. You can forget about coding JavaScript to spec in this browser.
Proprietary methods are back, and the document structure exposed to scripting is totally wrong.
I haven't tested this support extensively, and I don't know whether the DOM is broken or just unimplemented, but you can refresh your browser sniffers because you're going to be using them in your code for quite some time to come. So Microsoft hasn't done much to implement other technologies. Produced by Stephanos Piperoglou and Copyright 2001 INT Media Group, Incorporated All Rights Reserved.