----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:52 PM Subject: Re: Fun with proof by analogy, was Re: Mojibake on my Web pages
> On 26/09/2003 06:16, John Cowan wrote: > > >Peter Kirk scripsit: > > > > > > > >>Almost all users of what? This isn't true of Windows, and for better or > >>for worse the majority of all browser users use Windows. Windows, at > >>least 98+, nags you to upgrade to the latest version of IE whether you > >>want to or not - which is annoying on my old PC which hasn't got the > >>disk space for IE6. > >> > >> > > > >True. But whatever isn't fixed in IE6 won't be fixed at all -- no more > >upgrades (except, presumably, security-related ones) after that. > >Microsoft has said so. > > > > > > > Well, looks like Microsoft won the browser wars and nearly killed off > Netscape only to hand over their victory on a plate to whoever feels > like taking the prize. Mozilla will be stepping up to take it. The > problem is that this victory is expensive, and doesn't bring revenue > because people have got used to browsers being free. > > But to come back to the issue, IE6 has adequate support for UTF-8 and > many other encodings, so this is no excuse for not serving web pages in > UTF-8. > > -- > Peter Kirk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) > http://www.qaya.org/ > >
