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Re: Alarishi Home Page

From: Alan E & Carmel J Brain <aebrain@d...>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 15:46:22 +1000
Subject: Re: Alarishi Home Page

Richard Slattery wrote:

> > Anyways, it does show up in Internet Explorer
> > even though it doesn't with Netscape (maybe
> > a glitch to be fixed Laserlight?).
> >
> 
> A cursory look reveals a few reasons why this page makes
> netscape barf.... <TABLE> is opened but never closed with a
> </TABLE> which I have previously noticed confusing netscape.

Let me guess... made with a MS product? IE doesn't need </TABLE> to
figure out the end, and ignores its presence. MS Frontpage etc don't
bother putting it in. The idea is to "de-commoditise" the html standard
(see the Haloween documents).

Basically, MS pagebuilders at one stage deliberately made pages only MS
browsers could understand.

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