>From "David McNab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> I was under the impression (at least from The Register) that *office* XP
>was
>> doing this, most significantly in Word and FrontPage (I think that's what
>it's
>> called). Apparently you can overcome this by just editing the HTML
>directly,
>> and you could probably write a little macro that did it for you, if you
>cared.
>
>Yeah, and alienate the bulk of the potential Windows user base.
Throw it in with the installer, office can be macroed in a very
user-transparent way (as demonstrated by the various viruses)
>No matter what opinions we may have about Windows, the fact remains:
I use windows. I like it.
>The key to populating Freenet with a massive wealth of content lies in
>making Freenet accessible, convenient and technically UN-challenging to even
>the most unskilled of Windows users.
Have a drool-proof client program that, when told to insert word or frontpage
html, cleans off all the crap and fixes up the URIs.
>Don't overlook what I said earlier - Word and Frontpage XP aren't the only
>apps that fuck with '//'.
>Lots of (non-M$) windows apps do that as well.
There's lots of broken software out there.
--
Benjamin Coates
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