- From: Scott Swanson <scott@earthweb.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 11:07:12 -0400 (EDT)
- To: FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com (Fisher Mark)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
> Walter Ian Kaye writes in <v03007802ae1977f4204e@[205.149.180.135]>: > > * Nix the newsreader and email; NewsWatcher and Eudora are better > > (and please reduce the software's ram+disk footprint accordingly) > > Instead of that, make the newsreader and emailer dynamically linkable > somehow. In that way, people who already have better newsreaders and > emailers can use theirs in place of the built-ins, while there will still be > support for news and email for people who do not have newsreaders or > mailers. TimBL's original idea of unifying the handling of Internet > protocols via browser URL processing is still a good one -- it has just > suffered in the case of news and email from mediocre implementations in > browsers. Um, Internet Config, anyone? That seems ideal. API, consolidated helper info, etc. Already done, extensible, and doesn't seem to conflict with anything. -- Scott Swanson - Systems Director - http://www.earthweb.com EarthWeb - 3 Park Avenue, 38th floor - New York, NY 10016 scott@earthweb.com - (212) 725-6550 x231 - fax (212) 725-6559
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