AOL has many millions of users..
if AOL does indeed base their next browser on ns6, then you now have to
support
several million user using ns6.. considerable larger than 3/10th of 1%.
> I really have to ask. Why this world shattering need to create NS6
support?
> I recently posted statistics that showed that 3/10th of 1% of world
Internet
> travelers are using NS6/Mozilla combined. Opera has a bigger following.
>
> From what I understand we're using NS6 as a watermark for futrue
domcentric
> browsers not because it "critical" due to penetration issues of a new
> browser. If you do your research Richard, not many clients will scream
for
> NS6 support once they realize just how insignificant the issue really is.
>
> The only reason this hysteria for NS6 even exists is because Netscape has
a
> brand name. People hear Netscape and think "Must be important!". NS4 is
> important, because thats the browser of choice for the anti Microsoft
> followers. They all tried NS6 and went back to NS4.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Melvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 12:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Browser Language Support
>
>
> > Regardless of 'future intentions' we all live in the 'now'.
> > And in the now, I need ns6 support. Not languge detection.
> > In the future it may be nice to have language detection,
> > but I'd much rather have ns6 support.
> >
> > So just relax, help us finish version 2 of DynAPI, and THEN
> > we cann all discuss wahat we want to see in DynAPI version 2.01.
> > Okay?
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Eytan Heidingsfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 6:14 AM
> > Subject: RE: [Dynapi-Dev] Browser Language Support
> >
> >
> > > Yet again I throw myself in the middle to block the rocks and then I
get
> > > trampled.
> > >
> > > Pascal, this is an API, which means that at one point in the really
far
> > > future ppl will just download the zip file, unzip it and create
> > applications
> > > without ever looking in the source code. Now if some developer wants
to
> > add
> > > special text for every language or some other feature it would be nice
> if
> > he
> > > could just check is.lang. I see Michael beat me to it when he said "he
> api
> > > is aimed at making it possible to code
> > > pages without the need for browser specific code"
> > >
> > > 8an
> > >
> > >
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