On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:22:42 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 04:40:09 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> Another question: Why did the developers of MSIE and NetScape even >> ever want to incorporate a "browser upload" feature? This is >> certainly not a feature that any normal browser should have. This >> kind of feature certainly is not needed. It serves only to make the >> browser more bloated and to run more slowly. > Easy to answer this. They wanted MSIE and Netscape to be "all-in-one" > internet programs with all functions handled by the browser package. > This is easier for the ordainary, uninformed user to cope with. A > seperate ftp program confuses the uninitiated. <snip> I just now tried for the first time the FTP function which one can call from Arachne with the F2 key. It worked fine and it was perfectly intuitive to understand how to use it. I could have easily figured out how to use it even if I were a newbie. Also I have used several FTP programs other than the one included with Arachne. They work fine. The documentation is very short and to the point. All the "how-to's" are very well explained in one short page of text. Nothing difficult about that, even for newbies who don't have any experience with anything other than DOS. Most newbies nowadays don't know anything about DOS. They start them out wrong by teaching them Window$ first. It is hard to teach DOS to people whose prior computer experience comes only from a background in using Window$. It is much easier to teach DOS to a real newbie who has never before used a computer. Those kinds of newbies tend to have very open minds and they will be very quick to learn what is wrong with Window$. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
