Uncle Larry must have half his retirement money riding on Micro$oft.
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> OK, this is getting more than a little frustrating. Over the past few
> years, I've put in TARs about the poorly-written HTML on the Metalink
pages
> because it causes certain articles to be unreadable in browsers other than
> IE. I was hoping that the "new" Metalink (as yet unseen) would fix this,
> until today when I read this:
>
>
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_datab
> ase_id=NOT&p_id=135677.1
>
> Seeing that half of the article is double spaced and has margins asserted
on
> it that cause the code to wrap, I viewed the source:
>
> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9">
>
> JUST FREAKING GREAT! What happened to Uncle Larry's Linux Mandate? So
what
> if Oracle is converting to Linux? Why should their customers use Linux if
> Oracle makes it more difficult for them? There ain't no browser available
> on Linux that'll read that article properly because it's a Microslop-only
> webpage! GRRRRRRRRR! >|
>
> Browser-specific HTML is just a special case of a general issue of
laziness.
> -- Peter Coffee, e-Week editor
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1730,00.asp
>
> </FUME>
>
> Rich
>
> Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
> Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI
USA
>
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