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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Metalink and HTML (GRRRRR!)
OK, this is getting more than a little frustrating. Over the past few
years, I've put in TARs about the poorly-written HTML on the Metalink pages
because it causes certain articles to be unreadable in browsers other than
IE. I was hoping that the "new" Metalink (as yet unseen) would fix this,
until today when I read this:
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_datab ase_id=NOT&p_id=135677.1
Seeing that half of the article is double spaced and has margins asserted on it that cause the code to wrap, I viewed the source:
<meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9">
JUST FREAKING GREAT! What happened to Uncle Larry's Linux Mandate? So what if Oracle is converting to Linux? Why should their customers use Linux if Oracle makes it more difficult for them? There ain't no browser available on Linux that'll read that article properly because it's a Microslop-only webpage! GRRRRRRRRR! >|
Browser-specific HTML is just a special case of a general issue of laziness.
</FUME>
Rich
Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA
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