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Who needs web standards?

16th January 2003

Aquarion points out a truly moronic “browser upgrade” notice. I especially like Anything larger than 800 x 600 is too large, and the pages do not diosplay [sic] properly.

Posted 16th January 2003 at 10:07 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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