Subject: Re: Commit: HTML exporter work
From: Adrian Phillips (adrianp@powertech.no)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 09:57:32 CDT
>>>>> "Dom" == Dom Lachowicz <dominicl@seas.upenn.edu> writes:
Dom> Quoting Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@multicert.com>:
>> On 01 Aug 2001 10:29:29 -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote: > 1) All
>> lines now terminated with \r\n for MSIE compatibility
>>
>> And now I will see ^Ms everywhere around? This is an MSIE bug,
>> not exporter bug. Please revert 1)
Dom> Hi Scott,
Dom> I won't be reverting this change anytime soon for various
Dom> reasons, even though this is a MSIE bug:
Dom> 1) MSIE has >85% of the market share 2) The little '\r' isn't
Dom> hurting anyone 3) '\r\n' is a valid XML line-ending
Dom> termination sequence, so our documents are still XHTML 1.0
Dom> strict compliant 4) MSFT won't be supplying a fix for this
Dom> anytime soon, and even if they did, it would take eons for
Dom> people to upgrade 5) I want the greatest audience possible to
Dom> view these documents
Dom> Sorry, but unless you can argue something more substantial
Dom> than 'Now I see ^Ms everywhere' this change won't be
Dom> reverted.
Would a comment in the exported HTML, for example "The carriage
returns are there to support Microsoft's broken Internet Explorer",
satisy those who don't want them because it is MS that has screwed up
yet again ?
Sincerely,
Adrian Phillips
-- Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [OK]
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