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Re: Gravity bike



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.

Best wishes,

Larry

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Larry Cartwright <exit60@cablespeed.com>
Retired (June 2001) Physics Teacher
Charlotte MI 48813 USA
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"Information is not knowledge,
knowledge is not wisdom,
and wisdom is not foresight.
Each grows out of the other
and we need them all."
(Arthur C. Clarke)
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