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echo: nthelp
to: Paul Ranson
from: Adam Flinton
date: 2003-10-16 14:36:20
subject: Re: why George puts his foot in his mouth

From: Adam Flinton 

Paul Ranson wrote:
> Your issue isn't with Microsoft though.

I never said it was. My problem is with hiding progaming instructions in comments.

> What alternative do you propose to
> maintain backwards compatibility, not to mention cross browser compatibilty?
> IIRC this isn't exactly a new thing with HTML.
>

New tags. If a browser runs into a tag it doesn't understand it should
ignore it/treat it as a comment.

> George needs to write a more intelligent spam filter. Why not parse
> displayable text out of the HTML and do the normal word thing with that?

I have no problem with that. My problem is with PI'es in comments.

Adam

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