On Wed 8 May 2002 14:33, Tim Pizey wrote:
Paul,
Your site http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/rfc/rfc_document.asp?docnum=429 is completely broken.
It does not display in Netscape 4.7 (Missing end table tag would be my guess),
When I tried to post a comment using Konqueror I got:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 11: Incorrect syntax near 't'.
/rfc/rfc_document.asp, line 168
The comment I was trying to post: Hi,
I hope the irony of your site being broken is not lost on you!
The link to this document contains spaces, which your Microsoft ASP driven site gives a 400 error.
The attribution of theses comments is also broken, all appearing to come from pukpai.
This is a nice illustration of the claim that Microsoft software doesn't work. There are however bigger reasons why the Government should not use proprietory formats. Unlike private business the government has a duty to the citizens to store data in a format which is open to inspection by members of the public and in a format which can be expected to last hundreds of years, rather than the few years which any one of the Microsoft formats has lasted to date.
But it worked perfectly for me today using SuSE 8.0 dist. Konqueror. -- Best wishes, Derek