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- From: dgrant@dgrant.peinet.pe.ca (Dennis Grant)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Announce: AWeb 1.0 released!
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 13:58:15 GMT
- Organization: Private Internet Connection
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- In article <151200@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
- > >
- > >In article <4j65ge$dk@serpens.rhein.de> mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van
- > E
- > >lst) writes:
- > >> jlidstro@bd.edu.amu.se (John F. Lidstrom) writes:
- > >>
- > >> > MvE> It doesn't crash (up to now) and is fully multi-threaded.
- > >>
- > >> >Mmmm.. That's true. But I _really_ miss the ability to center text&gxf =o)
- > >>
- > >> Well. I can wait for HTML3 support until people start to use HTML3.
- > >> And I deliberately ignore Netscape proprietary expansions, support
- > >> for these is a Bad Thing (TM).
- > >
- > > Besides, HTML 3.0 was only a working draft, which has now expired. Other
- > >drafts currently under consideration include many of the elements of the
- > >proposed HTML 3.0, such as tables, but HTML 3.0 itself is dead.
- > > Support for Netscape extensions is a very bad thing, I agree, because
- > >they're taking a markup language designed around document structure, and
- > >trying to force formatting on it. So, a few years down the road, after
- > >Netscape has polluted HTML to the point of unworkability, we'll have to either
- > >live with it (a la Windows) or toss it out and start again. Neither of which
- > >sounds like my idea of a good time.
- > >
- > >--
- > >Jonathan Gapen (innuendo@execpc.com)
- > >Bread in, toast out. How does it DO that?
- >
- > The problem here is that Netscape-formatted pages are becoming more
- > and more prevalent on the Web, not less. Stats I've heard say that
- > over 90% of folks browsing the Web are using Netscape.
- >
- > Now whether Netscape has done a good thing or a bad thing with their
- > custom tags, I won't argue about. However, unless Amiga owners are
- > content to spend their lives as "second class web citizens" then
- > don't you think we should have a browser that can display Netscape-isms?
- > Netscape's not going to go away.
- >
-
- Harv is 100% right. I do Web development as my job, and not having an Amiga
- Netscape causes me no end of grief. Ibrowse comes close, but after trying
- AWeb, it seems so damn slow.
-
- Mr. AWeb, if you're reading this, Netscape extensions are _essential_. Every
- single client I have demands their use.
-
- Great work, by the way.
-
-
- --
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- Dennis Grant
- dgrant@cycor.ca
- http://www.cycor.ca/TCave/
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