More Microsoft stupidity

I just found out that Microsoft IE does not support HTML quote tags. Here is an example:

• "This should have plain quotation marks around it."
• This should have plain or cool quotation marks around it (except in IE).

I just found this out, and since I use quotation tags extensively in my blogging, anyone coming to this site will find a whole lot of unquoted stuff. Quote tags really are not a hard thing to implement; they've been around since HTML 4. Honestly, though, I'm not that surprised. Since Microsoft Word practically forces fancy quotes down users' throats, it is consistent with Microsoft's corporate personality to force only one kind of quoting style on the Internet community, though one would think that a corporation would at least try to issue consistent edicts.

Well, this is just another reason to switch to Firefox.