A brief introduction to HTML
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...and Monopolies
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Microsoft FrontPage actually cannot generate a standards
compliant Web page... at all.
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It generates pages which Internet Explorer can read
easily...
- but other browsers may not be able to
- so forcing you to use Microsoft's browser
- this is part of what the illegal monopoloy cases in
the US and Europe have been about
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Microsoft aren't the only ones who are guilty, of course
- When Netscape was the dominant browser on the Web it
used non-standard constructs which were difficult for
other browsers to emulate