RE: rant on pathetic example of Microsoft FUD

2004-08-18 Thread Jason
> > > > Tell that to my daughter. She prefers to crank out HTML by hand ... > > Me too. I strongly suspect we're a tiny minority. > Count me in on this one. I have spent more time than I care to keep track of (unless it's billable) cleaning up WYSIWYG wreckage. > _

Re: rant on pathetic example of Microsoft FUD

2004-08-17 Thread Greg Rundlett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, at 7:01pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alas, human-friendly HTML is becoming rarer and rarer everyday. These days, it almost seems like HTML is seen more like program output (like object code) then something you can actually design and write yourself.

Re: rant on pathetic example of Microsoft FUD

2004-08-17 Thread bscott
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, at 7:01pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Alas, human-friendly HTML is becoming rarer and rarer everyday. These >> days, it almost seems like HTML is seen more like program output (like >> object code) then something you can actually design and write yourself. > > Tell that to m

Re: rant on pathetic example of Microsoft FUD

2004-08-17 Thread Fred
On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 19:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > Alas, human-friendly HTML is becoming rarer and rarer everyday. These > days, it almost seems like HTML is seen more like program output (like > object code) then something you can actually design and write yourself. Tell that to my da

Re: rant on pathetic example of Microsoft FUD

2004-08-16 Thread bscott
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, at 1:07am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was developing a CD-ROM product which contains multiple Microsoft > PowerPointless (tm) presentations. You might as well give up on any hope of doing anything standards-compliant right there. :-/ Pedantic clarification: This isn't

Re: rant on pathetic example of Microsoft FUD

2004-08-16 Thread bscott
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, at 12:19am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please take the time to trim quoted material from your posts. On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, at 12:19am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please take the time to trim quoted material from your posts. Please take the time to trim duplicated list-postin

Re: rant on pathetic example of Microsoft FUD

2004-08-14 Thread Fred
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 11:19, Derek Martin wrote: ... > And these experiences taught you not to ever use another Microsoft > product, right? ;-) You get what you deserve when you choose Microsoft. (yes, you may quote me on this) -- Fred -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- place "[hey]" in your subject. The

Re: rant on pathetic example of Microsoft FUD

2004-08-14 Thread Fred
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 10:24, Hewitt Tech wrote: ... > You bring up an interesting observation about Microsoft's application > products. Microsoft seems to specialize in making applications that are > incompatible or difficult to mimic. One product that I found rather > obnoxious is their "Picture I

Re: rant on pathetic example of Microsoft FUD

2004-08-14 Thread Derek Martin
reg Rundlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 1:07 AM > Subject: rant on pathetic example of Microsoft FUD > > > I was developing a CD-ROM product which contains multiple Microsoft > >

Re: rant on pathetic example of Microsoft FUD

2004-08-14 Thread Hewitt Tech
- Original Message - From: "Greg Rundlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 1:07 AM Subject: rant on pathetic example of Microsoft FUD > I was developing a CD-ROM product which contains mult

rant on pathetic example of Microsoft FUD

2004-08-13 Thread Greg Rundlett
I was developing a CD-ROM product which contains multiple Microsoft PowerPointless (tm) presentations. The CD would launch an html Table of Contents page using auto-run. To make the TOC page layout the same as the .ppt files, I simply created a slide in PowerPoint with appropriate links to th