- From: Jari Ollikainen <jari.ollikainen@dipoli.hut.fi>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 12:40:19 -0600
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
>...>Wow, are you guys out of touch with reality or what! >...>In case you hadn't noticed, Netscape is running on almost 5 >...>million desktops with a 60% market share. Most of the Web >...>page designers that I work with, and I work with many, >...>include Netscape extensions without thinking twice about it. >...>In this case, the tail is definitely waving the dog. Those >...>who ignore dominant market share in an increasingly commercial >...>WWW are bound to be swept right off the playing field. > >Hm. There are still those for whose Internet is a useful tool, not a >playing field in a dollar-winning game. You may be right as long as >you talk about users whose sole ambition is to create "a k00l >homepage", but what about those who use the web seriously? With SGML So what. I think those pages are merely for fun and practise, I might mistaken here but I doubt! >as an ever-expanding standard of electronic information exchange >anybody who wants to take advantage of available functionality has no >choice but to become a purist (and I mean industry, not personal "k00l >pages"). My guess: in a few years the web will be 90% colourful >Netscape-induced trash (worthless HTML), and 10% sites that will >_really_ use the net... And then I hope people will start notice how >much they've missed chasing fancy backgrounds. > What if there is color in pages... I don't mind, beside you can allways skip those color settings or skip the whole page if ya don't like 'em! Anyway this whole discusion about color in pages is all wrong, I belive that since it's now here it might as well stay. // Jari Ollikainen jari.ollikainen@hut.fi // Helsinki University of Technology // Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli Tel. +358 0 451 4065 // TechNet Finland Fax: +358 0 451 4487 // FI-02150 ESPOO, FINLAND
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