[SpamCop-List] Re: This site best viewed with anything but IE?!?!

[Socks the white house cat]

Someday in the distant future, archeologists digging thru the ruins of
spamcop  will discover that "Cordwainer Smith"
<masterpunkNOSPAM at NOSPAMcox.SPAMNO.net> had this to say on 24 Jun 2004: 

> Know what... To have THAT statement posted on what I (USED to)
> consider a PROFESSIONAL site... Is VERY unprofessional... And sort of
> childish. 
> 
> *I* Use IE... If I were running an OS that did not have an embedded
> Browser, THEN I would use a different browser. But, I use IE cos it is
> part of my OS. As a matter of fact, I would probably use Opera, cos I
> like the interface... Or, I would use Sun Star Office.
> 
> But: I use IE cos of this windblows XP I am running... and it works
> FINE. 
> 
> And the SPAMCOP site looks just FINE.
> 
> Do the site designers ever look in these NG's? Cos THIS is bogus and
> unprofressional- And that statement should be REMOVED.
> 
> I don't think Julian would have gone around making statements like
> this ON A NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY VIEWD SITE:
> 
> "This site best viewed with anything but IE."
> 
> What UTTER BUNK!
> 
> Can we PLEASE get that REMOVED?
> 
> Oi Vey!
> 

leave it on. 'bout time someone said that, although my site is part of 
the "any damn browser" campaign.

however, it isnt quite true.  Running http://www.spamcop.net thru DrHTML 
there were more html tags that werent supported in netscape then the 
number not supported in IE.

See lines
 
LINK 
 TITLE 
          9, 11, 13, 15, 17 
 
LINK 
 TYPE 
          9, 11, 13, 15, 17 
             
SCRIPT 
 TYPE 
          19, 75, 87 
 
DIV 
 NAME 
          22, 34 
 
DIV 
 WIDTH 
          279 
 

followups set correctly and professionally :-)
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