[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

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Fri Jan 15 10:14:18 EST 2010


In article <fPzROaxImZRg at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>In article <7r8vt0Fmr6U2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> Exactly.  And who's responsibility is to make sure the web page is
>> readable by any browser?  Certainly not MS.
>
>   MS should make sure thier page generators create standard HTML, which
>   they do not.  MS's browser should behave correctly when it reads
>   standard HTML, which up until now they do not (IE8 is looking better).  
>   And yes, this is MS' responsibility.

One thing M$ page generators would do, and I swear intentionally, was to 
leave out the closing </table> tags on tables it generated.  M$IE would
render these pages but other browsers would not.  Hmm... does anyone see
a pattern?

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