From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 18:22: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A61AA37BA6D for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 18:21:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA77976; Mon, 22 May 2000 10:51:42 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 10:51:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Trevor Johnson Cc: Kristian Rink , questions Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD Petition Message-ID: <20000522105141.D77130@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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