On 01/11/2010 16:20, Carl Denk wrote:
> I have been a fan of Firefox for some years, but Microsoft devious ways
> is an issue. There are some pages that just don't work with Firefox, but
> one needs IE to work with the page. I am far from an expert in the area,
> but the best I can determine, the pages are authored with Microsoft
> software, or are a Microsoft application that do not conform to the
> standards, inject errors that IE is able to handle, forcing the use of
> IE. 2 wrongs =3D right. :~(

If you right click to copy & paste text on uploaded MS Frontpage or some=20
MS Word HTML exports the browser hangs.

MS application generated HTML is truly hideous, hence MS app "sanitise"=20
paste button in Wordpress WYSIWG editor.
Also I have MS Office and Open Office (or whatever it's called). If I=20
out of laziness want HTML from Word/Excel/Powerpoint I open the file in=20
OO and saveas HTML with it instead of MS
Apart from horribly non-standard, MS generated HTML is unbelievably=20
bloated.   .
> Also current versions Firefox handles some pages differently with Win XP
> (SP2 or SP3) and Ubuntu 9.10. This is with an ATI HD2400 video card, but
> have same results with other ATI cards.
I use ubuntu  for a number of years and run the April 2010 LTS version=20
(forget which cute animal) and XP SP3, not noticed a difference.
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