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

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In article <4b509739$0$14115$703f8584 at textnews.kpn.nl>, Wilm Boerhout <wboerhout.no at spam.gmail.com> writes:
>Paul Sture mentioned  on 15-1-2010 16:58:
>> In article<00A97953.F6740313 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
>>   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>
>>> In article<fPzROaxImZRg at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
>>> koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>>>> In article<7r8vt0Fmr6U2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill
>>>> Gunshannon) writes:
>>>>> Exactly.  And who's responsibility is to make sure the web page is
>>>>> readable by any browser?  Certainly not MS.
>>>>
>>>>    MS should make sure thier page generators create standard HTML, which
>>>>    they do not.  MS's browser should behave correctly when it reads
>>>>    standard HTML, which up until now they do not (IE8 is looking better).
>>>>    And yes, this is MS' responsibility.
>>>
>>> One thing M$ 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

My VMS newsreader was just fine with it.

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