Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:14:21 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Kevin Downey <redchin@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. Message-ID: <20080529221421.GD62524@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCIEKMCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <1d3ed48c0805290038m5098e34bne51f919c9094ae04@mail.gmail.com> <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCIEKMCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:00:57AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Downey [mailto:redchin@gmail.com]
> >
> > Let be the first of many to say, please do not top post.
>
> Let me be the first to say please don't quote the entire posting
> and the entire response.
>
> > In a recent interview it was revealed that the New York Times does a
> > lot of by hand html writing because it just gets you better html.
>
> Of course it does. And I would expect a really professional
> site to do so. But, your not paying attention to what he is
> saying:
>
> "... trying to determine exactly what causes firefox and konq to diverge..."
>
> An html author who writes by hand MUST know about ALL browser
> idiosyncracies. The OP does not want to know this or he would
> have TESTED with all browsers years ago. And the context indicates
> he really doesen't want to know.
Chill down a bit, okay? first, (as the OP), i did not know
thaat there was *this** great a disparity in thee rendering
between classes of browsers. i used to stick pretty close
to the w3.org (or whatever it was). i didn't think the
difference extended to how the <TABLE> stuff was parsed.
BZZZT. letsee, that 25 trillion for Life, 3 for gary.
.....
>
--the OP
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