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

[Bob Koehler]

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

   At least one of MS' generators, used to set up access to a collection
   of jpeg images, would generate code to detect which browser was being
   used, if not Explorer, generate a page claiming that browser might not 
   work, and if the user selected the procede-anyhow link, that would
   take the browser to HTML that didn't work.  All to view jpeg images.

   Of course, if one simply removed the generated index.html, viewing a
   directory tree full of HTML images in most browsers is trivial.
   Unfortunately my cousin generated CD's of this stuff, so "removing"
   the index.html file meant copying the tree to a hard drive first.