Uncle Larry must have half his retirement money riding on Micro$oft. ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:14 PM
> 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. > -- Peter Coffee, e-Week editor > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1730,00.asp > > </FUME> > > Rich > > Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Jesse, Rich > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Arup Nanda INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
