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Re: good practice for clients
"N.G.Smith" writes:
[I said:]
| >Yep - in-lined infomercials must be a higher priority!
|
| This doesn't explain it. Browsers have been around for a lot longer
| than that. Why weren't the first generation of browsers built with this
| kind of support from day one.
There are quite a lot of things it would have been nice to have in from
day one, like persistent connections, byte ranges, the MIME stuff, ...
I thought we were doing quite well until the Netscape thing came along.
Ho hum. Things kind of stalled after that.
| Something I've not had a chance to follow is the W3C libraries. If the
| LineMode browser has support for multiple IP addresses on a hostname,
| is the code not already there? What does Arena do for example?
If I have my thinking head on today, the problem is versionitis - httpd
is expecting to be linked with version 2 of the common library, and
would need major surgery to work with version 3 or 4 ? By comparison,
a few short sharp shocks should suffice to make it behave more
sensibility.
Whether anyone would install this stuff is another matter. Have I got
it right that W3[CO] aren't planning to release any new old-style
httpd's ? Surprising considering how many people are using it. Still,
that's _research prototypes_ for you, right ? :-)
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