Year: 1998

[NPL] WSP Finds Problems With IE 5.0

Posted by | Nov 4, 1998 | |

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Chris Carrico
Urge Public Relations
Chris@urgepr.com
323-848-8743

WSP RELEASES LIST OF INTERNET EXPLORER’S
TOP 10 PROBLEMS WITH KEY WEB STANDARD

Los Angeles, CA – November 4, 1998 – With the launch of The Web Standards
Project’s “IE Top 10 CSS Problems” (http://www.webstandards.org/ie/), WSP
today revealed continuing flaws in Microsoft’s support for the Cascading
Style Sheets standard, and challenged the company to improve its browser’s
handling of the crucial standard.

Created in response to a challenge from Microsoft, the “IE Top 10 C

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[MD1] Tim O’Reilly’s “Open Letter to Microsoft”

Posted by | Nov 4, 1998 | |

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 4, 1998
CONTACT: Sara Winge, 707/829-0515 x285, sara@oreilly.com
http://www.oreilly.com

TIM O’REILLY SENDS AN “OPEN LETTER TO MICROSOFT”

Tim O’Reilly, President and CEO of O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., responds to
the “Halloween Document”, an internal Microsoft memorandum analyzing Open
Source software and its potential impact for Microsoft.

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[NPL] Text Cleaner 1.5

Posted by | Nov 3, 1998 | |

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TEXT CLEANER UPDATE BRINGS WEB-READY CLEANING AND KEEPS STYLES WITH XPRESS TAGS

Takoma Park, MD November 3, 1998–Studio 405, Inc. announced today that it
has begun shipping Text Cleaner 1.5 for the Macintosh. Text Cleaner
provides correct typesetting marks and input error correction in one pass,
eliminating the need for common search and replace routines. The 1.5
upgrade adds text preparation for the World-Wide Web by changing text
characters with no direct HTML conversion to their web-safe counterparts.

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