The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #61987   Message #999555
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
10-Aug-03 - 12:11 AM
Thread Name: Gladly, the cross-eyed bear
Subject: RE: Gladly, the cross-eyed bear
I really wish you'd stop using those fussy html tags that don't work in slightly older browsers. I can often barely read your messages for all the "“" and "”" tags liberally spread throughout the text. A simple """ does the job for both left and right quotes, and is pretty well universally readable. I wouldn't have mentioned it, though it's been annoying me for a long time, but that "…" was the last straw. I had to look it up in a manual. Why not just type in three periods, for heaven's sake?

Users of IE will have no idea what I am talking about; on the whole, though, it's best only to use html to express things that may not otherwise be consistently interpreted by different browsers; but only if the code is more reliable than the keyboard symbol. One of the first lessons in web design I learned was that, if a tag can't be relied upon to work uniformly, you don't use it.

Nothing personal; but you're about the only one round here who uses those tags, so I'm afraid you get the flak.