Lets just hope they use Netscape 6.0 instead of 4.x, then I personally won't have a problem. When Linux or any other OS forges ahead of MS, then I'm there baby, with bells on.
TB ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:52 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Browser gripe > Brett: > > The browser share statistics were interesting and powerful (interestingly > > the statistics seem to encouraging more sites to be unreadable in > Netscape). > > That said though, I reject (working within my limited webpage capability) > > locking off access to non-IE users to codeconscious.com for obvious > reasons! > > It will be interesting to see how non-pc or non-Windows based browsers > > affect those statistics in the years to come. > > Today's statistics may be tomorrow's history -- there's a strong rumour that > AOL will revert to bundling Netscape/Mozilla in a future release -- > unleashing tens of millions of users who'd expect sites to still work for > them. > > http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/08/1957252&mode=thread > > It makes sense -- why own Netscape and bundle Microsoft? > > The moral I draw is the same as yours --- to stick to the standards not the > vendor's extensions. I do most of my browsing with Opera and will only fire > up IE or NN/MZ on a site that chokes on Opera if it really looks worth my > while. > > I guess I'm with Tim Berners-Lee when he says "The power of the Web is in its > universality" -- why dilute that power by restricting access? > > Sunanda. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. > -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
