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echo: nthelp
to: John Beamish
from: Geo.
date: 2003-10-15 21:17:42
subject: Re: why George puts his foot in his mouth

From: "Geo." 

Am I the only person who thinks that comments in code are for humans not
for the machine? I mean isn't the whole reason you mark something as a
comment so that the machine knows to just skip it?

Geo.

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
news:3f8dd908{at}w3.nls.net... Not a good example, Rich.

The opening sentence on the page reads "One of the most common
operations performed in a Web page is to detect the browser type and
version. "

George was talking about using Word for an email editor.  Web pages and
email/spammail are hardly likely to be overlapping sets.

  "Rich"  wrote in message news:3f8da505$1{at}w3.nls.net...
     These are not comments to be read.  These are conditional comments
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/ccomment_ovw.asp)
and have meaning.

     You have only yourself to blame for deploying something you obviously
did not test.

  Rich

    "Geo."  wrote in message
news:3f8d9f59$1{at}w3.nls.net...

    Well Microsoft to the rescue.. All the idiots who use Word 10 as their
email
    editor are now generating code with tons of comments like:

    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

    I mean come on people, is anyone at Microsoft even thinking about how
this
    affects things, do they WANT more spam? What are you guys thinking,
someone
    actually reads the SOURCE besides email admins trying to filter the
crap?

    Geo.

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