On 20 Jan 99, at 0:45, Bob Munck wrote:
--snip an interesting home page --
> Do other people on this list do their own home page like this, or just use
> one of the commercial portals or start-up pages?
This whole portal think passed me buy or I haven't found my niche. In
IE I use a blank page and in Netscape I did find this portal page
that I signed up for just because it was an idea for a website.
I use all the search engines and go back and forth.
> It seems to me that the big portal sites will be in trouble when XML
> really gets going, because people will be able to retrieve stuff from all
> over in XML and then format it into a single home page. That is, all the
> customization work that the portal sites do server-side will be done on
> the local machine by JavaScript code. Users will buy or download an
> application package that lets them do selections from lists of
> net-available stuff, do drag-and-drop to arrange the page the way they
> want it.
Now that is interesting. I can see it if you can install it over the
web but otherwise I think most people will just not go there. I
think one reason that some people might use these 'portal' sites is
because they are just too lazy to create their own home-pages. They
don't want to bother to learn an html editor (never mind html).
But if they could go to a website, click buttons and create a
personal portal site that they can then save on their computer .....
no ... it would be too much trouble for them to find it once they
saved it.
Peter
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