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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: IBrowser4a
- From: bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple)
- Message-ID: <bmaple.jil2@burner.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 10:58:11 MST
- Organization: The Back Burner BBS
-
- On Sat 16-Mar-1996 10:33p, John F. Lidstrom wrote:
-
- JL> Isn't that the way most of 'standards' take there form?
- JL> A leading company take the control and make a defacto standard, that's
- JL> developed to a real standard?
-
- Thats what it's turning in to. But generally a standard is made up of the
- input of lots of people/companies and adopted by consensus. Take HST. US
- Robotics did the same thing Netscape is doing; They said "Screw you we'll
- just do what we want" and they came up with HST. While HST is somewhat
- widespread and they made a lot of money on it, it's not really a standard.
- (Of course, HST is _really_ propriatary in the sense they never sold the
- protocol to anyone which is half the reason it isn't more popular today than
- it was at it's peak.)
-
- There's nothing wrong with Netscape wanting to expand HTML. They're just
- going about it the wrong way, in my opinion. It'd be one thing if they had
- developed a whole different markup language of their own; But no, they're
- taking something that already exists and just adding crap to it by themselves
- and acting like it's normal.
-
- : Bob Maple : In the beginning, the Universe was created. :
- : bmaple@burner.com : This has made a lot of people very angry and :
- : http://rmii.com/~bobm : been widely regarded as a bad move. .........:
-