It's not just a set of features. Sure, it all started with Netscape supporting frames whereas Mosaic did not. So it would be nice if it just advertised "Supports: frames". But then IE also supported frames, but if the graphics designer made a web page so that it was nice and pretty and aligned perfectly in Netscape, it looked all screwy in IE, because of differences in spacing within and between frames. So it helped to be able to serve different pages to different browsers. And then came active content, with Java applets and ActiveX and embedded video and javascript/vbscript, and things got worse. It's been getting better in the last few years, but not that much better than you can make a single version of your website.
On Sep 15, 2013, at 4:59 AM, Randy Bush <[email protected]> wrote: > < a fair bit off topic > > > forgetting ww2, isn't this the wrong way around? the browser should > speak of which of a well-known feature set it supports, not what it's > 'name' happens to be. > > randy _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
