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Re: SIS browser
Joe Kohn <joko@nomorespam.net.invalid> wrote:
> If you wrote a document on a Mac and have some of the Mac high character
> sets, it will show up correctly on the Mac and IIgs. You will get strange
> results on the Windows and UNIX. We are living in a world which is biased
> against Apples (and UNIX) and we just have to live with it unless we
> switch to Windows.
One of the more amusing consequences of this character mapping soup on the
Macintosh version of Netscape are recipes calling for "pi" cups of some
ingredient. I never knew that cooking was so mathematical. ;-)
Fortunately, the Apple II will never run Windows, so we will have to put
up with poorly designed websites continually causing problems.
Byron.
- References:
- SIS browser
- From: Geraldine.A.Wright.1@gsfc.nasa.gov (Geraldine Wright)
- Re: SIS browser
- From: Joe Kohn <joko@NoMoreSpam.net.invalid>