- From: Rob Hartill <hartill@ooo.lanl.gov>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 95 11:15:23 MDT
- To: www-talk@www10.w3.org
Gavin Nicol wrote: >Sounds to me like someone needs to write a new freeware browser that >makes Netscape look bad. I don't think that'd help. Nestscape is king of the browsers and they pushed the technology along nicely (in places). It's just very frustrating to see them drag their heels on some of the more useful features of HTML/HTTP in favour of what to many of us are just cute bells and whistles. It may be that Netscape and other commercial browser developers are forced to pander to big business and make it easier for them to turn the internet into a giant billboard. If so, what channels are available for all the "little guys" to get support for the so far ignored parts of HTML/HTTP they need to make their projects feasible ? They also hand over their $$$s... "Use the offical channels" you might say, but what do you do when those keep failing ?. At the moment, you either shut up and be forgotten, or air your grievances and be labelled a whiner. Maybe what's needed is a way to categorise browsers, e.g. an independent body (W3O ?) could give browsers some kind of seal of approval when they support all the features of a given HTML/HTTP version. This might encourage the companies to support long awaited features before they let the programmers loose to play with the bells and whistles. rob -- http://nqcd.lanl.gov/~hartill/
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