Darn, this was supposed to go to the list, I was not watching. ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: Re: [newbie] See what MSN.com has done? Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 10:36:36 -0500 From: Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 27 October 2001 01:58 am, you wrote: > RE: > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098823,00.html?chkpt=zdnnp1t >p02 > > "Visse said earlier Thursday that the message would be shown to > people using "browsers that we know don't support (W3C) standards or > that we can't insure will get a great experience for the customer." > W3C refers to the World Wide Web Consortium, which is developing > industry standards for Web technologies." > > "Microsoft admitted that its technology was watching for Opera > strings--but only because the company wanted to encourage people to > use standard-compliant browsers." > > ---- > > Read: THEIR standards. > > This is complete crap. Almost all of the browsers they blocked > out support enough HTML 4.0 to make the site perfectly viewable. I > find it hard to believe that MS even cares about W3C standards as > there are a lot of proprietary HTML tags supported only by MSIE. > > I'm not even sure there is a browser around anymore that supports > pure W3C standards. > > Talk about smokescreen. > > - John > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > ---------------------------------------- You are right. What hogwash, now that they have opened it up to browsers that may not render it correctly and optimize our "experience" , Konqueror will pull it up and show it perfectly, well as perfect as microcrap can be shown. : ) -- Dennis M. registered Linux user #180842 ------------------------------------------------------- -- Dennis M. registered Linux user #180842
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