- From: Mike Paciello <paciello@ma.ultranet.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:55:31 -0500
- To: dd@w3.org, Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
I'm puzzled by this definition -- are you sure that you want to say "PC Platform"? How do you deal with WebTV? That's one example of a popular user agent that is not PC based, right? - Mike At 04:38 PM 1/15/99 +0100, Daniel Dardailler wrote: > >> Please define "mainstream" browser for me, so I can put the definition on >> the issues list. > >A generic definition would be a Web UA targeted for use on a standard >desktop platform with: graphical screen, keyboard, mouse, audio (I'm >sure the PC industry has a definition of a standard desktop somewhere, >we don't need to redefine that), primarily by non disabled users. > >A specific definition is: one of > - Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer > - any other that compete with these two (Opera, IBM WebExplorer, etc) > >A corrolary of these definitions is that a mainstream browser, as >Chuck Opperman said on the list,"is often times forced on students and >employees." who would otherwise use more specialized user agents best >suited to their needs. > Mike Paciello Email: <paciello@ma.ultranet.com> WebABLE! Solutions Tel: (603) 598-9544 131 D.W. Highway #618 Fax: (603) 598-2839 Nashua, NH 03060 WWW: <http:://www.webable.com> Please make a donation to the Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation. (http://www.yuri.org) "A creativity initiative is any proposal for action-inciting change that earns at least one serious conversation with someone other than the originator’s spouse, friend, or office mate…." – John Kao, Jamming
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