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- Subject: Re: AWeb browers with netscape extension is a must
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- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 96 9:12:58 GMT
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- From: DIETMAR@TOMATE.TNG.OCHE.DE (Dietmar Eilert)
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- kindel@ghoti.osf.org (Bill Kindel) wrote:
-
- BK> Netscape is already becoming the Microsoft of the World Wide Web. If they
- BK> succeed, then all the work that has gone into the HTML and HTTP standards
- BK> (and S-HTTP, which is needed to guarantee privacy for financial and other
- BK> transactions) will be wasted. Current Netscape servers support a number of
- BK> proprietary extensions that serve as "lock-ins" to force people to use
- BK> Netscape browsers. At the same time, Netscape appears to be dragging its
-
- Well, I guess that this is a discussion about browser, not about the small
- server market. I can't see any reason why the programmers of non-Netscape
- browsers would be stupid enough not to support commands invented by NetScape
- (and accepted by WWW publishers) and thus allow NetScape to force people
- using a specific browser.
-
- Netscape's only advantage is that setting some standards allows them to
- develop their products faster. This isn't such a big advantage since the
- market doesn't allow any pace - design and publishing of www pages is
- expensive and consumes time. Even a small programmer team should be able to
- stand this competition. Especially if considering that Netscape currently
- isn't a well designed program (beeing powerful doesn't necessarily imply a
- good design): it is a big monolithic inflexible application. Modern software
- should be split into smaller parts and re-use existing components.
-
- * In a random sampling of GoldED users, 100% said that they'd rather use
- GoldED than be publically flogged, eaten alive by pirhanas, OR watch
- SeaQuest DSV.
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