Oracle-L: RE: Metalink and HTML (GRRRRR!)

From: Boivin, Patrice J <BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 06:29:06 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0052B24B.20030109062906@fatcity.com>

Jesse,

Why not log a TAR with Oracle to mention that their tech note pages don't appear to be working, you can't read them in your LINUX browser...

Yesterday I logged a TAR with them to mention that the OTN iAS security doc link for 1.0.2.2 is a dead link, and that we can't provide feedback to the Web master because the OTN forum wasn't working either.

Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

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Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

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:

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

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Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com              Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

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