Hello:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 01:09:49 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard
Menedetter) wrote:
> Hi
> 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
> The homepage renders well ... but I haven't tried to phone somebody :)
OK, you can access the homepage site with Opera 5.02, and the homepage
is renderered well with the environment described, except for WIN95 instead
of WIN98, but if you login to access the dialpad for the purpose of making
a phone call you will get an error message saying you must have MSIE 4.5 or
above. Until just recently all of the features used to work with MSIE 4.0.
<snip>
> 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)
The above are some points well made :)
Regards,
Sam Heywood
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