Yeah, maybe IE supports some junk technologies, but it also supports some really usefull ones that as of yet NS doesn't. I work for a small company which produces distributed applications which use the browser as a front end and its been our experience that almost everything we ever want to do is easy in IE but almost always aggravatingly difficult in NS. NS does what it does well, which is flat pages, but try and do anything interesting and NS soon becomes a hinderance.
Despite my feelings about MS in general I think they have some smart people working for them. I also think that MS has put a lot more thought into where browsers are headed than anyone else.
I certainly hope that the Mozilla/NS group get their act together and put out a stable, robust and feature rich platform or its going to be a MS world.
I would assume that the "bi" in the new metric denotes base 2. So the new names will only really make sense to anyone whose taken courses in low level computer stuff. They still sound silly tho.
CORBA could certainly do this. CORBA is a middleware solution and acts much like a software bus overtop of the network. But like you said, the apps would have to be written.
I just finished a course in distributed systems and this looks like it will be a big thing. I guess a number of the telcos are already looking into this stuff.
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Yeah, maybe IE supports some junk technologies, but it also supports some really usefull ones that as of yet NS doesn't. I work for a small company which produces distributed applications which use the browser as a front end and its been our experience that almost everything we ever want to do is easy in IE but almost always aggravatingly difficult in NS. NS does what it does well, which is flat pages, but try and do anything interesting and NS soon becomes a hinderance.
Despite my feelings about MS in general I think they have some smart people working for them. I also think that MS has put a lot more thought into where browsers are headed than anyone else.
I certainly hope that the Mozilla/NS group get their act together and put out a stable, robust and feature rich platform or its going to be a MS world.
Steve
How is Internet commerce really different from something like mail order commerce? Haven't we been dealing with this for some time?
I would assume that the "bi" in the new metric denotes base 2. So the new names will only really make sense to anyone whose taken courses in low level computer stuff. They still sound silly tho.
Steve
CORBA could certainly do this. CORBA is a middleware solution and acts much like a software bus overtop of the network. But like you said, the apps would have to be written.
I just finished a course in distributed systems and this looks like it will be a big thing. I guess a number of the telcos are already looking into this stuff.