AOL's and M$ business plans appear to be heading into direct conflict, M$ with hailstorm and AOL with Red Hat. I dont see AOL wanting to depend on M$ for even a dial tone. If AOL does decide to keep using IE for AOL for Windows, if such a thing will even exist soon, I am sure it will be purely because AOL will want to exercise its power over M$, though an unlikely scenario.
It is my guess that AOL, and others, are trying to hold off on such manuevers until the punishment phase of the anti-trust suit is settled. As far as my opinion on the browser issue... I think most or all of the Netscape 4.x's were out of date when they came out. The problem is really those nasty people behind the once rapidly evolving html spec, which was at one time a great document format, and is now pathetic discombulation of mixed up ideas. BTW: I am writing this with netscape 4.51 in win98 on a box with about 5 OS's on it. --Ryan Terry Brownell wrote: > 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. -- Note: When sending me email directly, always make sure to include my name in the message, otherwise my aggressive spam filters may trash it. Ryan Cole * www.iesco-dms.com * 707-468-5400 -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
