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

[Paul Sture]

In article <4b509739$0$14115$703f8584 at textnews.kpn.nl>,
 Wilm Boerhout <wboerhout.no at spam.gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

ROFL!

I was going to  claim it was a Freudian slip, but really it's just
an extension of this bit of Murphy's Usenet Law:

"Any Usenet post pointing out spelling or grammar mistakes will
itself contain spelling and grammar mistakes."

:-)

-- 
Paul Sture