Re: More Microsoft abominations (was RE: Style Sheet Support) from Hiram Lester, Jr. on 1997-08-11 (www-html@w3.org from August 1997)

From: Hiram Lester, Jr. <hwlester@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 14:39:41 -0500 (CDT)
To: WWW HTML Mailing List <www-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.970811143705.19195E-100000@frank.mtsu.edu>

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

> Excuse me, but what the hell are those illegal &#153; NCRs doing there?
> 
> What is Microsoft's problem?!?

All Microsoft sites (MSNBC, Ziff-Davis) seem to be loaded with these and
other invalid entity references.  (something like &#147 and &#148 for
smartquotes, and one for an endash or emdash...) Sigh...

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