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- From: dgrant@dgrant.peinet.pe.ca (Dennis Grant)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AWeb browers with netscape extension is a must
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 14:01:41 GMT
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- In article <paul.4aja@serena.iaehv.nl> paul@serena.iaehv.nl (Paul Kolenbrander) writes:
- >
- > BTW, I think Netscape is a mongrel and the company behidn it is
- > almost solely responsible for making the HTML 3 draft not go
- > through. Just by dumping their netscapisms on peopel without
- > taking the trouble to get them into the HTML 3 specs first. But
- > Java is kinda nice. But that was developed by Sun. :-) Oh yes,
- > I do hoep you use Netscape 2.01 as 2.0 had a huge scurity leak
- > allowing page creators to make visitors automatically send them
- > an email (with their return adress) without said visitor knowing.
-
- You're right, Netscape as a company and a product sucks gophers through
- garden hose.
-
- BUT
-
- The Netscape extensions are the new standard. We may not like it, but that's
- the world.
-
- Great work, BTW. Looking forward to the Netscape-d version.
-
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