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Scoble’s mark of quality: The real question is: who’ll do it for more than 150 million users first? That’s just not right ;)

11 Comments

Comment by Funky Chicken Lady #
2005-04-03 13:42:45

Sound gÕÕd, I alâ€ays feel <span class=”MSNORML

Comment by Phil Ringnalda #
2005-04-03 13:50:31

MSNORML? That’s rather hard to picture.

Comment by Funky Chicken Lady #
2005-04-03 19:24:44

MSABNORMAL?

 
Comment by Kafkaesquí #
2005-04-03 21:20:10

Actually, I find MSNORMAL harder to picture.

Comment by Phil Ringnalda #
2005-04-03 22:34:53

Haven’t spent much time with Firefox ”This page don’t work!” bugs, have you? I avoid them, when I have time to triage, but I still look at some, and most of the time I view source, see either class="MSNORMAL" or class="MsoNormal", and suddenly find that I have something else urgent to do. I can picture it just fine. Some nights, I wake up screaming, and it’s flashing in foot-high orange letters against the dark bedroom ceiling.

Comment by Funky Chicken Lady #
2005-04-03 23:26:09

”I can picture it just fine. Some nights, I wake up screaming, and it’s flashing in foot-high orange letters against the dark bedroom ceiling.”

*BWOKKK!*

(suddenly molts)

Comment by Phil Ringnalda #
2005-04-03 23:43:00

Oh no. I’ll have to look next time. Maybe they really are orange with red borders, and yellow in the center. What are you doing to my formerly spotless mind?

Exits stage left, screaming

 
 
 
 
 
 
Comment by Phil Ringnalda #
2005-04-03 22:51:57

Heh. I’ve gotten so used to just ignoring what other browsers might do or not do with a particular element from HTML 4 (24 April 1998), I didn’t really think about whether or not an ability to see an effect from a <q> element would make any difference.

I wonder what other ways there are to say different things to IE and EOMB, just in markup.

Comment by Kafkaesquí #
2005-04-04 03:19:24

Having to deal with people saying ”mind your <p>s with <q>s” is probably why it never went into wide use. Meanwhile, you’ll have to provide a definition of ”different things.” In the current context, it could be translated as ”damn never everything.”

Comment by Funky Chicken Lady #
2005-04-04 18:10:14

(Fox at chicken coop! Fox at chicken coop!

(Funky Chicken Lady vote for throwing IE to fox.)

 
Comment by Phil Ringnalda #
2005-04-04 20:08:34

Well, at least at the time I was thinking of things just like using <q> to change the meaning for people using EOMB. I think that narrows it down to pretty much <q> and <abbr> (using an abbreviation that at first glance probably means one thing, but according to the title attribute actually means another), which is a pretty thin palette.

 
 
 
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