Jesse,

Why not log a TAR with Oracle to mention that their tech note pages don't
appear to be working, you can't read them in your LINUX browser...

Yesterday I logged a TAR with them to mention that the OTN iAS security doc
link for 1.0.2.2 is a dead link, and that we can't provide feedback to the
Web master because the OTN forum wasn't working either.

Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)


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OK, this is getting more than a little frustrating.  Over the past few
years, I've put in TARs about the poorly-written HTML on the Metalink pages
because it causes certain articles to be unreadable in browsers other than
IE.  I was hoping that the "new" Metalink (as yet unseen) would fix this,
until today when I read this:

http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_datab
ase_id=NOT&p_id=135677.1

Seeing that half of the article is double spaced and has margins asserted on
it that cause the code to wrap, I viewed the source:

<meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9">

JUST FREAKING GREAT!  What happened to Uncle Larry's Linux Mandate?  So what
if Oracle is converting to Linux?  Why should their customers use Linux if
Oracle makes it more difficult for them?  There ain't no browser available
on Linux that'll read that article properly because it's a Microslop-only
webpage!  GRRRRRRRRR!  >|

Browser-specific HTML is just a special case of a general issue of laziness.
                -- Peter Coffee, e-Week editor
                http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1730,00.asp

</FUME>

Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
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