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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

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

Almost necessarily so since the original error is usually quoted.

Thunderbird has a built-in spelling checker.  I think most of the other 
mail/news clients also have spelling checkers.  When mine says I'm wrong 
I fix it on the spot or dig out my dictionary to figure out where I 
screwed up!

What you write IS YOU!  It's all anybody on usenet has to go on.  If you 
write as if you were illiterate guess what people will think of you!

I make exceptions for those whose native language is obviously not 
English although it's usually not necessary.

Just for additional grins, anybody who got the Vassar Spelling checker 
13-14 years ago saw a lovely little list of student additions to the 
dictionary; the spelling checker objected to their spelling so they 
added their misspelled version to the dictionary.  It led me to wonder 
just how easy it was to be admitted to the school! ;-)