You're right, that is for FTP...which is a different protocol. Back then I was using Netscape after I switched from lynx, and yes things do tend to "blur together" using one tool, pros and cons.
As for the average Internet user, I doubt they care whether or not the Internet extends beyond their browser or email client. For them it's a tool, it does what they need it to and that's it. Some how I doubt it's a product of Netscape's "bad choices". Let's face it, average users want something that is easy to use. Be that something a POS like Windows or IE. On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Szilveszter Adam wrote: > Which is totally irrelevant, since it is about FTP urls. That part is > RFC-compliant and still works. Why do people think that just because you > can use the same (rather poor) all-singing-all-dancing tool to access > certain services, then these must be the same thing? Oh wait, there are > still people who think that it is the "www" in the name that makes a web > server... (It seems Netscape founders really made some bad chioces way > back then when they decided to integrate several tools into their web > browser. Just to make it easier on the layman user... now there is a > whole generation that thinks that the Internet is pretty much what's in > the browser. Brrrr.) > > Regards: > Sz. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
