Re: Gravity bike

[Chuck Britton <britton@NCSSM.EDU>]

It's not quite this simple. Netscape can't/won't display it even if FORCED to!

The page is written to MS standard rather than Internet Standards.

Some think that this is progress, some recognize it as illegal
restraint of competition.



At  1:14 PM -0500  on  1/19/02,  Larry Cartwright   wrote
> Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
> >  Am I the only one to see html tags mixed with the text?
> >  I just checked another URL and the text was displayed
> >  normally (without tags). What is going on?
>
> What's going on is a little sloppiness on the part of the webpage
> author(s).  They didn't give the webpage an identifying suffix such as
> .htm or .html, so some web browser client software (Netscape 4.7x for
> example) doesn't recognize that it's a webpage and just displays it as
> text.
> Other browsers (MS Internet Explorer 5.5 for example) assume that it's a
> webpage and display it properly.  Score one artificial intelligence
> point for The Evil Empire; IE5.5 is "smart" enough to recognize an HTML
> page without having a filename suffix to confirm it.
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