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< quote>HTML is an international standard, unless you use Internet Explorer which MS Extended and modified HTML to be MSpecial. why are pages written for IE only when there are millions who don't use IE. I stopped using IE when mozilla was 0.9 and I haven't looked back. </ quote>

Oh yeah and the blink tag is definitly part of the international standard. Let me ask you this you said millions of people aren't using IE, but what about those millions that aren't using it times 10? Are we suppose to cadder to the less than 10% who choose not to use IE?

Let me ask you this, who owns the standard that everybody is using? The people with 10% of the share or the people with the 90% of the share? I say the "standard" is the people with the 90% of the share.

Personally I think standards are very realative to who actually wants to impliment them. The supposed standard of the web is suppose to be PNG image format. Now if I was to ask you what the standard for image formats on the web, you would tell me JPEG or GIF. So are you wrong, because you aren't following the standard of a self proclaimed group? I say no, the standard is with the majority of people who use one thing over the other.

So stop this they aren't following the standards bull crap. No body bitches at OpenOffice for not following the standards of a Microsoft Word Document when they try to generate one. It is only when Microsoft decides to deviate from the god given plan of the Linux Guru's that they get critized. So top you bitching and go back into your hole.