Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 10:51:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Cc: Kristian Rink <kristian.rink@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>, questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD Petition Message-ID: <20000522105141.D77130@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0005212056490.6633-100000@blues.jpj.net> References: <XFMail.20000521220751.kristian.rink@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> <Pine.BSI.4.21.0005212056490.6633-100000@blues.jpj.net>
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On Sunday, 21 May 2000 at 21:14:02 -0400, Trevor Johnson wrote: >> what should I need an insecure, unstable and closed-sourced browser >> like IE for? > > Internet Explorer displays the smart quotes and apostrophes in > Microsoft text correctly. These "smart quotes and apostrophes" are a deliberate attempt to break an industry standard. They're really control characters. > If we all had it, people who write their Web pages using Microsoft > products wouldn't need to pass them through the demoroniser ( > http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/ ) just so we could > read them. Wouldn't that be nice? No. It would accept that Microsoft has broken yet another industry standard. To quote the description of demoroniser: demoroniser - correct moronic and gratuitously incompatible HTML generated by Microsoft applications. I'd suggest you read the man page for demoroniser; it's more like an explanation of why we don't want to use Microsoft. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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