Graham
Here is the original Email I received re Microsoft webpages.
Maureen
> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:12:13 +0000
> Subject: Some important website notes
> From: Mark Ray <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Reply-to: Mark Ray <[log in to unmask]>
> Very much on the technical side, but I hope this list finds
> this of some use. On a side issue, people keep using
> platform-specific fonts and not specifying a generic font.
> Generic font names are serif, sans-serif, cursive, monospace,
> and fantasy. You can specify these as the last in your list,
> eg FACE="Comic Sans,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif", and try to
> ensure we don't see your page in Courier...
>
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>
> I am seeing ? where there should be a ' or " far too often.
> Please pass the following to people writing webpages in your
> local area...
>
> From slashdot:
>
> Demoronizer is a Perl program which corrects numerous errors
> and incompatibilities in HTML generated by, or edited
> with, Microsoft applications. The demoroniser keeps
> you from looking dumber than a bag of dirt when your
> Web page is viewed by a user on a non-Microsoft
> platform. A little detective work revealed that, as is
> usually the case when you encounter something shoddy
> in the vicinity of a computer, Microsoft incompetence
> and gratuitous incompatibility were to blame. Western
> language HTML documents are written in the ISO 8859-1
> Latin-1 character set, with a specified set of escapes
> for special characters. Blithely ignoring this
> prescription, as usual, Microsoft use their own
> "extension" to Latin-1, in which a variety of
> characters which do not appear in Latin-1 are inserted
> in the range 0x82 through 0x95--this having the merit
> of being incompatible with both Latin-1 and Unicode,
> which reserve this region for additional control
> characters.
>
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser
>
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> | M J Ray http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ | www.stu.uea.ac.uk/cool/ |
> | Main Editor, The Student Web at UEA | Try a Cool Site UK |
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