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Re: Sausage Software: the products

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From: Patrick Dunford
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:00
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Verily, verily nguyen@netspace.net.au (Jim Nguyen) didst write on 28
Apr 1998 15:13:22 GMT in
nz.comp:<6i4rmi$gt8$1@otis.netspace.net.au>...

>DRS (simpsond@removethis.tig.com.au) wrote:
>
>: You moron.  I rely almost exclusively on HTML editing.  I need the control
>: over the code to ensure things like greater compatibility with older
>: browsers and so forth than FrontPage et al can give me.  WYSIWYG is good for
>: amateurs and those of us who use it as a prototyping tool, but with 57
>: varieties of HTML still floating around the good old text editor has a long
>: life ahead of it.
>
>Well you're just a programmer wannabe fuckwit. So tell me exactly what 
>kind of control you have over the "code"? So what if there is 57 varieties 
>of HTML out there? Being such a specific number you probably know them 
>all right? It's not particularly hard to make pages compatible with the 
>two major browsers which most people are concerned with since these two 
>are at the cutting edge of html implementation not to mention user-base 
>dominance. But if you find it particularly challenging to make it compatible 
>with every browser on every platform good for you, you loser. Most of us 
>have better things to do with our time.

It's not hard to make your pages compatible with *most* browsers
(including older versions of Netscape which don't support all the IE4
brass knobs)

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From: patrick_dunford@hotmail.com.nz (Patrick Dunford)
Subject: Re: Sausage Software: the products
Date: 1998/04/29
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