[Ham-Mac] Apple vs. Microsoft and Why We Suffer

[K6LMP]

This is not an Apple vs. MIcrosoft issue.  It is Microsoft vs. the  
rest of the world.  Microsoft adopted some "non standard" HTML coding  
and tried to impose it on the rest of the world, but they failed.  
They implemented IE to recognize those non-standard codes, in  
violation of all the standards and protocols that are supposed to  
control the Internet formatting.  NO browsert other than IE will  
recognize the non-standard Microsoft coding.  Try looking at your web  
page on a Windows version of Opera or Firefox and see what you get.   
I predict it will look like just what you get with Safari and Firefox  
on Mac, both of which adhere to the Internet standards.

The only solution for this problem is for all internet content  
creators to eschew using the non-standard Microsoft coding.  As  
individual consumers we can support that effort by refusng to buy any  
software that depends on such coding, and refusing to buy from any  
web-based seller who uses it.  I especially abhor web sites that  
declare they are only useable with IE as the browser. This is an  
insult to a huge percentage of the internet community, not just Mac  
users.  There's a significant fraction  of the Windows community that  
has switched over to Firefox, and of course nobody in the Unix  
community uses IE unless absolutely necessary because of idiotic site  
programming.


Lew

On Jul 16, 2005, at 8:42 AM, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:

> I ran into another example of how the Apple vs. Microsoft (or the  
> other way
> around) causes problems for the rest of us.
>
> I keep my DXCC records in an Excel worksheet with a summary table.   
> I wanted
> to extract the summary for use on my web page so I selected the  
> table and
> used the MS Excel option to export to a Web Page.  The small .htm file
> looked great in Internet Explorer but was very generic and ugly  
> when viewed
> with Safari and Firefox. The Microsoft formatting only works in IE.  
> I got
> tired of messing with it and decided to use it as-is in the web  
> page. This
> explains why my link to Hams with Corvettes is hosed.
>
> Hope to see some of you in NAQP RTTY contest today.
>
> 73 de Dick, AA5VU
>
>
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