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- From: Paul Copsey <paul@hectortd.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Announce: AWeb 1.0 released!
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 96 15:32:27 BST
- Organization: Hector's House
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- Neil Scott Nadelman (docsane@user1.channel1.com) wrote:
-
- > were using at the time, whether it was official or not. Since most of the
- > WWW seems to have adopted Netscape as their browser of choice, they seem to
-
- Because it's free, and available for the most widely used web browsing
- platforms.
-
- > Why are so many people so horrified at the prospect of an Amiga browser
- > being NHTML compatible? Is there really an advantage in not being able to
- > view pages the way their designers intended? Must we follow standards at the
- > expense of ignoring the real world?
-
- The point is, they are a commercial body, trying to dictate over
- (currently) one part of the net. Let them get a stronghold on the web,
- and the chances that they can force other things increases.
-
- So far, the net has worked on standards that have been agreed to by
- the majority of the users, and s/ware developers have fitted into
- that, netscape want to control it themselves.
-
- Paul
-
- --
- "A poem: a story in meter or rhyme."
- 'Ahh. `There once was a man from Nantucket...`'
- "You've been talking to Garibaldi again, haven't you?"
- -- Delenn and Sinclair, "The Gathering"
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