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

Paul Sture paul.nospam at sture.ch
Fri Jan 15 10:58:30 EST 2010


In article <00A97953.F6740313 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> 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?

<ugh>

sloppy programming

-- 
Paul Sture



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