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

Wilm Boerhout wboerhout.no at spam.gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 11:26:32 EST 2010


Paul Sture mentioned  on 15-1-2010 16:58:
> 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
>

Shouldn´t that be

<ugh>

sloppy programming

</ugh>

My
(non-MS) newsreader barfed on your post :-)

/Wilm



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