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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