- From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 09:46:42 +0100
- To: www-proxy@w3.org
"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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