>From "David McNab" <david at rebirthing.co.nz> >> I was under the impression (at least from The Register) that *office* XP >was >> doing this, most significantly in Word and FrontPage (I think that's what >it's >> called). Apparently you can overcome this by just editing the HTML >directly, >> and you could probably write a little macro that did it for you, if you >cared. > >Yeah, and alienate the bulk of the potential Windows user base.
Throw it in with the installer, office can be macroed in a very user-transparent way (as demonstrated by the various viruses) >No matter what opinions we may have about Windows, the fact remains: I use windows. I like it. >The key to populating Freenet with a massive wealth of content lies in >making Freenet accessible, convenient and technically UN-challenging to even >the most unskilled of Windows users. Have a drool-proof client program that, when told to insert word or frontpage html, cleans off all the crap and fixes up the URIs. >Don't overlook what I said earlier - Word and Frontpage XP aren't the only >apps that fuck with '//'. >Lots of (non-M$) windows apps do that as well. There's lots of broken software out there. -- Benjamin Coates _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
