From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 18:32:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dastor.albury.net.au (dastor.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB5237B972 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 18:32:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicks@dastor.albury.net.au) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by dastor.albury.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA70721; Mon, 22 May 2000 11:32:12 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from nicks) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 11:32:12 +1000 From: Nick Slager To: Trevor Johnson Cc: Kristian Rink , questions Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD Petition Message-ID: <20000522113212.B69594@albury.net.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from trevor@jpj.net on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 09:14:02PM -0400 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 . (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