>>>>> "Dom" == Dom Lachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    Dom> Quoting Rui Miguel Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
    >> On 01 Aug 2001 10:29:29 -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote: > 1) All
    >> lines now terminated with \r\n for MSIE compatibility
    >> 
    >> And now I will see ^Ms everywhere around?  This is an MSIE bug,
    >> not exporter bug. Please revert 1)

    Dom> Hi Scott,

    Dom> I won't be reverting this change anytime soon for various
    Dom> reasons, even though this is a MSIE bug:

    Dom> 1) MSIE has >85% of the market share 2) The little '\r' isn't
    Dom> hurting anyone 3) '\r\n' is a valid XML line-ending
    Dom> termination sequence, so our documents are still XHTML 1.0
    Dom> strict compliant 4) MSFT won't be supplying a fix for this
    Dom> anytime soon, and even if they did, it would take eons for
    Dom> people to upgrade 5) I want the greatest audience possible to
    Dom> view these documents

    Dom> Sorry, but unless you can argue something more substantial
    Dom> than 'Now I see ^Ms everywhere' this change won't be
    Dom> reverted.

Would a comment in the exported HTML, for example "The carriage
returns are there to support Microsoft's broken Internet Explorer",
satisy those who don't want them because it is MS that has screwed up
yet again ?

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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