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to: Rich
from: John Beamish
date: 2003-10-15 19:32:20
subject: Re: why George puts his foot in his mouth

From: "John Beamish" 

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Not a good example, Rich. =20

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. " =20

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.as=
p) 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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Not a good
example, Rich.  =


 
The opening
sentence on the =
page reads "One=20
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type and version. "  
 
George was
talking about using =
Word for an=20
email editor.  Web pages and email/spammail are hardly likely to be =

overlapping sets.
 
"Rich" <{at}> wrote in message news:3f8da505$1{at}w3.nls.net... These are not comments = to be=20 read. These are conditional comments (http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/ccomment= _ovw.asp">http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/ccomme= nt_ovw.asp)=20 and have meaning. You have only yourself = to blame for=20 deploying something you obviously did not test. Rich "Geo." <fake{at}barkdom.com>=20">mailto:fake{at}barkdom.com">fake{at}barkdom.com>=20 wrote in message news:3f8d9f59$1{at}w3.nls.net...Well=20 Microsoft to the rescue.. All the idiots who use Word 10 as their=20 emaileditor are now generating code with tons of comments=20 like:<!--[if gte mso = 9]><![endif]--><!--[if=20 gte mso 9]><![endif]--><!--[if=20 !mso]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso=20 10]><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>I = mean=20 come on people, is anyone at Microsoft even thinking about how=20 thisaffects things, do they WANT more spam? What are you guys = thinking,=20 someoneactually reads the SOURCE besides email admins trying to = filter=20 the = crap?Geo. ------=_NextPart_000_0077_01C39353.0D4FAD40-- --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5
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