That your name color meme...
May. 19th, 2004 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrOk, this is a rant...
This "meme" uses standard HTML coding. But instead of a valid color name, it has you put in your username.
IE cheerfully accepts that and somehow mangles it into a color value. Programs that properly implement HTML see it as an invalid color name and ignore the font color command. And thus, for everyone not using IE, your name shows up the same color (usually black) that it would have if you hadn't put in the font color command.
MS is well known for not bothering to follow standards when it'd be "too much work" and thus there's lots of stuff that works with MS software but not with anything else.
Notorious examples including broken email because some MS programmer figured that any line in an email that started with "begin" had to be the start of a uuencoded file. Which rendered the rest of the message unreadable (and very hard to access unless you knew how to get Outlook to show you the "raw" message)
MS's response? "Don't start lines with begin". Is that arrogant or what?
I understand that they fixed it finally. But only after a year or two of complaints (and it'd been around longer than that before someone discovered what was going on.
Then there are the standards that MS breaks on purpose, so they can't use the Big Lie technique and tell people the *other* programs are broken. For example, IE and Frontpage both use the same broken HTML so MS can lock folks into IE if they get them to use Front Page.
This "meme" uses standard HTML coding. But instead of a valid color name, it has you put in your username.
IE cheerfully accepts that and somehow mangles it into a color value. Programs that properly implement HTML see it as an invalid color name and ignore the font color command. And thus, for everyone not using IE, your name shows up the same color (usually black) that it would have if you hadn't put in the font color command.
MS is well known for not bothering to follow standards when it'd be "too much work" and thus there's lots of stuff that works with MS software but not with anything else.
Notorious examples including broken email because some MS programmer figured that any line in an email that started with "begin" had to be the start of a uuencoded file. Which rendered the rest of the message unreadable (and very hard to access unless you knew how to get Outlook to show you the "raw" message)
MS's response? "Don't start lines with begin". Is that arrogant or what?
I understand that they fixed it finally. But only after a year or two of complaints (and it'd been around longer than that before someone discovered what was going on.
Then there are the standards that MS breaks on purpose, so they can't use the Big Lie technique and tell people the *other* programs are broken. For example, IE and Frontpage both use the same broken HTML so MS can lock folks into IE if they get them to use Front Page.
