- From: Joel Crisp <Joel.Crisp@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 13:00:39 +0000
- To: www-talk@www10.w3.org
Mark Fisher wrote : >I also see Java as a way to prototype new browser features, like file >upload. Once the prototype serves its purpose, though, the feature should >be hard-coded into browsers. There are useful file upload apps (the TCE >Corporate Technical Memory being one) where local directory restrictions on >files would not be a problem, so Java would be an appropriate prototyping >tool. >Maybe it is my own myopic viewpoint, but file upload seems to be one of just >a small handful of WWW browser features that have a very high benefit/cost >ratio that have not been implemented. Unicode support (admittedly >significantly higher cost) seems to be the other... >====================================================================== >Mark Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics >fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN To my mind, the most significant missing feature in browsers is support for equations. This seems to be a strange feature to omit, as there are so many requirements for it. Several source code implementations for equation renderers exist, so why the delay ? Joel ---- Joel.Crisp@bris.ac.uk | ets-webmaster@bris.ac.uk
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