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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... > > --- Begin forwarded message from [uksu-www] --- > > 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 > > -- > ,-------------------------------------,-------------------------, > | 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 | > `-------------------------------------'-------------------------' > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%