- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 18:12:01 -0400
- To: Ka-Ping Yee <s-ping@orange.cv.tottori-u.ac.jp>, "Scott E. Preece" <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Cc: marnellm@portia.portia.com, boo@best.com, www-html@w3.org
At 12:02 AM 7/2/96 +0900, Ka-Ping Yee wrote: >> Netscape is still the clear winner, and likely to remain >> so as long as Microsoft is interested only in proprietary >> platforms (Windows and Macintosh)... > >Agreed. I disagree. Microsoft's browser will most likely dominate the majority of the desktops on the planet running Microsoft operating systems. In fact, I expect that by the middle of next year many people will be using a Microsoft operating system where the browser is so integrated that Netscape feels "different", as if you has installed a different command line shell or desktop. Perhaps the best of all possible worlds would be for Netscape to maintain dominance on Mac and Unix and Microsoft to dominate the rest. Having a single standard encourages "coding to the browser" and that inevitably leads to short-term thought out documents. In fact, the more their interfaces and features diverge the more people will just have to encode documents according to their structures and "trust the browser." Paul Prescod
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