[ale] OT: Can MS IE Really Be This Broken?

Preston Boyington PBoyington at polyengineering.com
Tue Sep 21 10:12:51 EDT 2004


George Carless wrote:
>> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>>> You all can go ahead and keep debating this point, but for what it's
>>> worth, I will NOT be using style sheets. I'm going to be generating
>>> this HTML in Python and it will kick out four HTML files forming a
>>> framed page.  My sample code is for one of the three frames.
>>> 
>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 08:31:11AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: 
>> removing the align="left" worked in the IE6 I have here (I believe
>> the default location is "left" so it is not necessary) and (as you
>> know) successive <blockquote>'s will indent as needed.
> 
> This is just horrible.  At LEAST use stylesheets for things like
> padding/margins, not nested blockquotes.. :(
> 
> --George

<diabolical laugh>

THAT'S RIGHT!!!  NESTED BLOCKQUOTES!!!  NESTED TABLES!!!  NO STINKIN' CSS TO CLEAN UP ANYTHING!!!  Maybe one of those "Get a REAL BROWSER, download Internet Explorer Now" buttons!!!

</diabolical laugh>

I know, I know, but Jeff has stated that he doesn't want to use any CSS.

Preston



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