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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."



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