[moneydance] Bank of America issues

[Edward Reid]

At 00:48 07/06/06 -0500, Gordon Alley wrote:
>I've read that one reason that the early
>Apple Safari web browser releases had trouble with a lot of web sites
>was that those sites were written for Internet Explorer, which often
>played fast and loose with some HTTP standards.

This is getting off topic, but that isn't quite accurate. Recent releases 
of IE have conformed quite closely to the standards -- at times better than 
other browsers. But for a browser to conform to the standards means that it 
renders standard-conforming PAGES as specified by the standard. The browser 
is allowed to do whatever it wants with pages that do not conform to the 
standard. And the problem is that the vast majority of pages on the web 
today do not conform to the standards, primarily because all of the popular 
web pages, such as DreamWeaver, GoLive, and FrontPage, had developers to 
lazy to bother with generating standard-conforming HTML/CSS. And it's IE's 
interpretation of these non-conforming pages, in what is quaintly known as 
"quirks mode", that causes 99% of the problems.

Web site developers can avoid almost all these problems by insisting that 
their web sites use only standard-conforming HTML/CSS. But few do.

In the case of Q vs MD, very likely there are places where the meaning of 
items in the OFX file format isn't clearly defined, and your comment about 
"bugs and quirks in Quicken" is right on. But it isn't quite parallel to 
the browser situation.

Edward
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