Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 11:32:12 +1000 From: Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au> 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: <20000522113212.B69594@albury.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0005212056490.6633-100000@blues.jpj.net>; from trevor@jpj.net on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 09:14:02PM -0400 References: <XFMail.20000521220751.kristian.rink@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> <Pine.BSI.4.21.0005212056490.6633-100000@blues.jpj.net>
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> > 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. If we all had it, people who write their Web pages using Oh. So now we have Microsoft(r) Text(tm)? With a special, proprietary browser in which to display it. :-( > 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? There are free (or cheap) graphical HTML editors available, that produce standards-compliant code. Or, these people could even learn HTML themselves <gasp>. (tongue planted in cheek) Nick. -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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