Hi
26 Mar 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
SH> They will not have to delete any of the browsers already installed,
SH> but they will have to install IE in addition to what they already
SH> have.
I had a look at your example ... and it worked without IE.
SO the reason why I never noticed such sites, is that most sites accept
newer Netscape versions as well.
>> I'm not using IE, and I haven't seen a single page that needs IE.
>> (expect update.microsoft.com :))
SH> Here is an example of a webpage that says you must have
SH> MSIE 4.5 or above: http://www.dialpad.com
no you must not have IE 4.5
it works in Netscape 4.5 and in Opera 5
SH> The site will not work with MSIE 4.0 and it will not work with
SH> Opera 5.02.
It will ... at least it renders correctly in the following environment:
Opera 5.02 Version information
Version 5.02
Build 855
Platform Win32
System Windows 98
Java Sun Java Runtime Environment 1.3
SH> This page lets you make PC-to-phone long distance calls in the US for
SH> free. Until just recently the site used to work with just fine with
SH> MSIE 4.0.
The homepage renders well ... but I haven't tried to phone somebody :)
SH> Radio frequencies are not freely available here.
standards are ;)))
SH> We can both agree that he has the right to be that way if that is
SH> what he wants to do.
SH> Also we both have a perfect right to feel that such behavior is
SH> really foolish and asinine.
we have the right to feel so, and I guess we do feel so as well ;))
SH> As we already have learned, a ZBM is simply a zipped BMP.
SH> PKZIP and BMP are both very well defined standards.
not really .. pkzip is proprietary.
But there are also free implementations.
And BMP is REALLY, really a very bad thing (tm) to store images in the
cache.
And calling an external program (pkzip, infozip, ...) to process a file is
a HUGE waste of time.
But this is just my oppinion ...
>> Promoting proprietary things instead of using freely available
>> standards is allways a VERY bad idea !
SH> I don't see anything proprietary about ZBMs. PKZIP and BMP are both
SH> very well known standards.
but not their combination.
At least I don't know any browser which supports ZBMs ...
(including Arachne ... which until now doesn't support it without tampering
with mime.cfg)
SH> Regards,
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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