A quote from the article... "But don't hold your breath. No AOL employee we have talked to, at any level, claims knowledge of any current or future plans to offer AOL client software for Linux users. "
I rest my case. 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.
