Firefox XSLT errors

When I decided to use server-side XML output and client-side XSLT transformations a while ago, Firefox 2 was the ideal development platform – reliable, well implemented browser with excellent debugging capabilities (Firebug). Since then, the XSLT ignorami contributing code to Firefox have managed to break so many things I simply have to document everything I know to be broken in one place:

• You have to use <xsl:output method=’html’>, and the root element of the transformed XML tree must be html (not HTML), otherwise the DOM is not properly initialized. DOCTYPE does not matter.
• Even though the DOCTYPE parameters in the xsl:output indicate transitional HTML, the attributes are case-sensitive (for example, onClick does not work).
• DOM initialization on Unix differs from Windows (document.body is missing).
• In some versions, numerous properties of the document object are missing.
• Output escaping cannot be disabled (this is not a bug, but a very particular feature implementation).

On top of everything else, Firebug does not work.

It breaks my heart, but I have to admit that with the rollout of Firefox 3 Internet Explorer 7 does a better job of handling client-side XSLT than Firefox.