Peter Duniho wrote:

"Ron Garret" wrote in message
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It's not at all odd. Microsoft has a long history of breaking industry
standards in order to foster incompatibilities that make its competitors
products appear inferior.


Now you're being ridiculous. That statement is just like the idiotic
accusations from the Firefox-worshipers that Microsoft is bad because IE
works with poorly-written HTML, even HTML that doesn't conform to the
standards.

As I mentioned in my reply to Stefan, the end-user doesn't give a crap about
whether standards were conformed to. They care about seeing the web page,
and they care about it being displayed correctly.

It cracks me up, people who go around claiming Microsoft is guilty of some
conspiracy, when what they've actually done is improve the end-user
experience.

They don't do it for the purpose of making their competitors products look
inferior. Their competitors products ARE inferior. It's not Microsoft's
fault that the competitors wind up looking poor in comparison.

Not that the Linux/Firefox/etc apologists will ever accept this truth. But
anyone who isn't blinded by their prejudice does.

This is too funny.

Matt