"....all the other non-stadard extensions IE introduces.
Frankly, the abandonment of Netscape is happening today, and the problem is going to accelerate. Unless some browser gets a toe hold in now, soon the web will be full of IE specific pages -- pages which follow no published standard, but instead are written to whatever implementation those guys at Redmond decides to give us....."
I am getting a little sick and tired of this line of reasoning. You can add what ever proprietary tags, scripts and whatnot to your browser, but unless there's a web server prepared to serve them, it wil serve you nothing!
Last time I checked, Microsoft was still losing that battle to Apache, so shall we lay off of the proprietary extensions fable? OK?
1. I work fn the securities department of a major bank and I can authoritavely say that 'long term' is > 5 years in investment terms. The problem is that the tech market has been ruled by *speculators* not *investors* 'til now. 2. There is a reason that OS is succesful in systems software: it is the software that requires Service and Support, which is where OS compans hope to make money. This is also why IBM is an OS supporter, they are primarily a hardware/service company. The equation goes: commodity hardware + free Op. Sys. = demand for service. It may be a vaid biz model, but time will tell
In this months Linux Journal there was an article about a company that reputedly has something similar ready for this holiday season. It`s an x86 Server running Linux with several appliances that connect to it over wireless Ethernet (basically X-terminals).
It looks cool, and better: it will be 100% Open Source! (Now when do they start selling in Europe?)
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"....all the other non-stadard extensions IE introduces. Frankly, the abandonment of Netscape is happening today, and the problem is going to accelerate. Unless some browser gets a toe hold in now, soon the web will be full of IE specific pages -- pages which follow no published standard, but instead are written to whatever implementation those guys at Redmond decides to give us....."
I am getting a little sick and tired of this line of reasoning. You can add what ever proprietary tags, scripts and whatnot to your browser, but unless there's a web server prepared to serve them, it wil serve you nothing! Last time I checked, Microsoft was still losing that battle to Apache, so shall we lay off of the proprietary extensions fable? OK?
1. I work fn the securities department of a major bank and I can authoritavely say that 'long term' is > 5 years in investment terms. The problem is that the tech market has been ruled by *speculators* not *investors* 'til now. 2. There is a reason that OS is succesful in systems software: it is the software that requires Service and Support, which is where OS compans hope to make money. This is also why IBM is an OS supporter, they are primarily a hardware/service company. The equation goes: commodity hardware + free Op. Sys. = demand for service. It may be a vaid biz model, but time will tell
In this months Linux Journal there was an article about a company that reputedly has something similar ready for this holiday season. It`s an x86 Server running Linux with several appliances that connect to it over wireless Ethernet (basically X-terminals).
It looks cool, and better: it will be 100% Open Source! (Now when do they start selling in Europe?)