- From: <S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 14:28:29 +0100 (BST)
- To: J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk (Jon Knight), www-proxy@w3.org
Jon Knight wrote: > > [about resilient connections] > The first generation (and second and third, etc, etc) didn't have this > sort of support in it because nobody was really doing the sort of serious > proxying that we're all up to now and there were much more pressing > problems taxing the minds of the then underfunded and underresourced > browser authors. I still am an underfunded and underresourced browser author, thank you very much :-) I have to do mine in my spare time, although I admit that it was my decision to make the software freeware. > The commercial browsers like Netscape can keep up with this. However its > not unnatural that the original under-resourced browser authors (where they > still exist) are having a tough time playing catch up. That's probably > why Netscape has a <insert your favourite number between 50 and 90 here>% > of the browser market. Except that Netscape aren't (yet?) in my market (ARM based desktop machines) -- Stewart Brodie, Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~snb94r/ http://delenn.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
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