From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 22:14:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87AB3106567E for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 22:14:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4578FC14 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 22:14:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m4TMEP4x072519; Thu, 29 May 2008 15:14:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 15:14:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:14:21 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Ted Mittelstaedt Message-ID: <20080529221421.GD62524@thought.org> References: <1d3ed48c0805290038m5098e34bne51f919c9094ae04@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Kevin Downey , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 22:14:26 -0000 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 stuff was parsed. BZZZT. letsee, that 25 trillion for Life, 3 for gary. ..... > --the OP -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org