Microsoft Advertises Incompatibility
Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Fri, 24 May 1996 22:14:08 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <199605250514.WAA19853@web1.calweb.com>
Subject: Microsoft Advertises Incompatibility
To: www-html@w3.org
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 22:14:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Lee Daniel Crocker" <lcrocker@calweb.com>
From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
It's bad enough that browser makers and W3 can't agree on how
to punctuate an English sentence correctly, but I just found
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/author/htmlspec/char_set.htm, in
which Microsoft proudly displays how to use — and other
illegal characters in MSIE to get real quotes and dashes.
This isn't rocket science people; let's get it right. There
is no excuse for standard HTML not to loudly deprecate non-
Unicode characters, and especially no excuse for Microsoft
to violate Unicode in an app that runs on their OS supporting
Unicode just fine. If I run Microsoft Unipad, I get correct
punctuation with no problem. Let's fix it, and get rid of
that stupid page to undo whatever damage has already been done.
BTW, I reported this bug in MSIE weeks ago, so they can't
claim ignorance either. They're just plainly choosing to
ignore a standard they and many others have worked hard for.
And don't tell me remapping 16 characters is too much work
to implement.
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Lee Daniel Crocker
lee@piclab.com (formerly leecr@microsoft.com)