Re: Microsoft bullies again
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Greg Madden wrote:
> More wasted bandwidth,
>
> No, it didn't deny intrance it redirected you to a site that suggests
> you download a MS product., while suggesting MS was standards compliant
> & whatever you were using was not. FWIW, Konq & Opera passed the W3C
> validator, Netscape didn't., don't use IE.
> - --
> Greg Madden
Now if only there were a way for W3C to forbid you from calling your site
a www-site unless all the content was W3C standards-compliant, the
situation would have been quite different; you would have to call it
msie.whatever instead of www. It would have also been nice
if the W3C could force you to include a warning on your site if it
includes non-compliant HTML content, and a warning about sugegsting that
people download non-compliant browsers:
msie.msn.com:
"This site uses HTML in a way not compliant with the standards set by its
designers. Standards-compliant browsers may not display the contents
of this site in the manner which the site owners intended. For this
purpose, the site owners suggest you downgrade to a non-compliant
browser, which may not function with standards-compliant material
and is available only for two families of proprietary operating systems;
click on the link below to download."
If only it could be done, the community that invented the standards
Microsoft are perverting and abusing could give them a healthy taste of
their own medicine.
George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St.,
tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos,
email: george@karaolides.com Nicosia CY 2057,
web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus
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