[Vision2020] rebate checks

[Scott Dredge]

I've never been been a big fan of Internet Explorer.  I was on Netscape until their quality degraded due to lack of funding and then I switched over to Firefox which performs very well for me unless I need to go to the Microsoft update page which forces me over to IE. Also, has anyone switched over to Vista?  I bought a computer last year that came loaded with Vista, but I was having enough subtle trouble with it that I finally just reinstalled XP last weekend on that machine.  In my opinion, there isn't much reason to go to the Vista OS.

-Scott

----- Original Message ----
From: Dave <tiedye at turbonet.com>
To: vision2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2008 8:53:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] rebate checks

Frontpage is probably why Firefox (and probably the others) have to lie 
to the web page and tell it that they are IE or the page won't let you in.

There are more then a few reasons it's called Microsuck.

I don't do much html stuff but Bluefish looks quite complete.  And you 
can't beat the price it's free, like everything else Linux.

Dave


Paul Rumelhart wrote:
> Does it output html that validates according to the w3c standards?  
> Frontpage was horrible for this, and Microsoft is notorious for setting 
> their own de-facto "standards".  Does it output the "IE-friendly" html 
> standard that Microsoft has used for ages that causes web designers such 
> headaches trying to get their pages to render in all standards-compliant 
> browsers *and* IE?  Is it configured to use cascading style sheets be 
> default?  If everyone and their dog is going to be using Expression Web 
> to code their html, I hope it's at least closer to being valid.  If 
> you've ever viewed the page source in your browser at some well-known 
> websites, you'll know that we are miles away from the goal of moving to 
> a stricter set of standards that can be used unchanged by all browsers.
>
> Paul (who codes his html in a text editor called vim and who is tired of 
> coding it once for all browsers that follow the real standards like 
> Firefox, Opera, and Safari only to have to bend over backwards to make 
> it look good in IE without then screwing it up again for the others)
>
> Chasuk wrote:
>  
>> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Sam Scripter <moscowsam at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>    
>>>  And how much do these two Microsoft software
>>>  packages cost? Does the UI Bookstore offer them
>>>  at "academic" prices?
>>>    
>>>      
>> Expression Web is the best HTML editor I have ever used, and I'd like
>> to think that I have used them all.  Disclaimer: I hated Frontpage.
>> Yes, Expression Web (and the rest of the Expression suite) is
>> available at academic prices.  Version 2 is brand new (I didn't even
>> know about it), so it might take a little while for the academic
>> version to reach retail outlets, but the previous academic version has
>> been in stores for a year or more.  I can't vouch for the price of the
>> entire suite, but the academic price for Expression Web by itself
>> is/was $89.
>>
>> Chas
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