From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 16 10:15:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB81D37B41B for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:15:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.244.105.187.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.244.105.187] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16FfoZ-0002Ez-00; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:15:07 -0800 Message-ID: <3C1CE49E.39FBBED2@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:14:54 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , David Greenman , Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Why no Indians and Arabs? References: <20011216044542.Y86103-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <004401c18635$2bd802d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C1CAAEC.636A8975@mindspring.com> <005b01c1863f$3fa9aa70$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C1CC27C.FAF0A04F@mindspring.com> <007601c18652$f4d62640$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anthony Atkielski wrote: > BTW, you haven't answered my question: Which "IE specific tags" am I using? > The pages validate as correct, standard HTML, which would necessarily > exclude any IE-specific code. Unbalanced tags (e.g open table element with no close tag). Automatic tag balancing being implied by the browser for all tags is an SGML feature; the HTML tag implied balancing is not true for all tags, according to the specification, amking the behaviour "undefined", rather thna "standard". > > Yet, you post things designed to drive controversy ... > > I compel people to defend unsubstantiated opinions. People who cannot > substantiate their opinions tend to think of that as "driving controversy" > or "being difficult" or think of it in any one of a dozen other negative > ways, but that is just rationalization. Luckily, the vast majority of my opinions are substantiated, and in the rare cases they are not, I have no problem defending them (usually on the basis of Occam's Razor, and the fact that light bulbs work). > Most visitors are first-time visitors. On extremely rare occasions, someone > still saddled with Netscape 4.x has asked why my pages display as a jumble > on her screen, and I've suggested that she upgrade to Netscape 6.x (if she > absolutely must stick with Netscape) or better still, to MSIE or possibly > Opera. I'd be happy to install IE for FreeBSD, if it weren't for the monopolistic practices which have precluded it from being ported. I would even run it under Linux emulation, if need be. [ ... comments on the marginal utility of UNIX desktops ... ] Which begs the question of why you post to these lists, which are not specifically intended for Windows advocacy... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message