[sldev] Re: [VWR] Web login without llmozlib

Argent Stonecutter secret.argent at gmail.com
Wed Dec 26 09:50:34 PST 2007


On 2007-12-26, at 11:32, Lawson English wrote:
> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>> [...]
>> The message after the status code is routinely delivered to end- 
>> users, by all kinds of software, when it's the best available  
>> response (for example, a fatal error with no body). The only  
>> software that I have run into that goes to great lengths to hide  
>> this information is Internet Explorer... and any time IE does  
>> something different than the rest of the world the odds are pretty  
>> overwhelming that it's not the rest of the world that's messed up  
>> (this is not to say that anything by Microsoft is suspect, just  
>> that IE seems to have become Microsoft's resident foulup fairy).

> Actually, anything Microsoft does IS suspect. They may have  
> improved in recent years, but it really WAS the unofficial motto of  
> the DOS division of MS that "DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run."

OK, "this is not to say that everything by Microsoft is messed up".  
Happy?



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