[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Paul Sture]

In article <pX97wXRCR6xo at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> In article <4b3fc001$0$274$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, 
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> > 
> > You have never seen a Windows system and a non-Windows communicate ??
> 
>    I have seen Windows accept data that was gennerated on other
>    platforms, where standards were followed.  And I have seen MS
>    products generate HTML that insisted only Explorer can display
>    JPEG files.  In fact, I've seen lots of MS products that generated
>    data that violated standards in ways that only MS products would
>    accept.

You _really_ don't want to experience the .HTM files which formed the
documentation for the Lacie external CD/DVD burner I bought in
December 2008 (yes, that recently).

Once I'd got over the hurdle of .HTM files being associated with MSIE on 
my Mac (huh - I remember deleting it, how did it come back?), I then
had some serious hacking to do to read the documentation.

Small wonder that when I picked the device off the dealer's shelf there
were a couple which had obviously been returned.

The device itself works absolutely fine, just a pity about the choice
of format for the documentation.

-- 
Paul Sture