RE: Abi and RTF standards

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 13:37:46 EST

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    The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from

    Microsoft is legendary for not keeping to even the standards that they
    wrote themselves.

    I just could not resist gettig a word in :)

    Sincerely
    Alan Horkan
    http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/

    On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Virgil Arrington Jr. wrote:

    > >From the Sane Anarchist,
    >
    > >I would like to have perfect compatability with Word, just like when I
    > >design
    > >a web page I want perfect compatability with Internet Explorer. But not at
    > >the loss of complying with the standards that browsers (or word processors)
    > >should be following anyway.
    >
    > Standards are nothing but man-made arbitrary rules, and they become more
    > arbitrary and meaningless if nobody follows them. I know none of us like to

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