Nav and IE features: one more quick response and I'm done for the day.
Reg said, "IE supports practially everything NAV does, and and NAV cannot come close to saying the same". This may be true, but I don't
think it's a good idea for netscape to try to match all the windows-centric features that msft can throw into their browser.
I don't think cascading style sheets is a compelling advantage, and
Nav will have it soon enough, if it doesn't have it now.
The real trojan horse for msft is ActiveX; if they convince the
world to go that direction, then it really will be a windows world,
and I guess it will have to be rechristened the wwww.
Everybody knows no matter how much PR msft puts into
the "open" charade, most OCR's or whatever they call the
downloadable binary dll thingies will only exist for Windows.
Reg, I have this long post laying around that I wrote a couple weeks ago when I was getting annoyed with your "java & internet aren't important" line, but it's way too wordy, and I've said most of what I have to say in other posts. Briefly, I agree with what I think you meant. The MSFT vision didn't really change much on Dec. 7 1995; the internet initiative was, deep down, just changing long distance carriers. Before, they were going to dominate with Windows and MSN; they're trying now to push much the same technology over the internet carrier. Maybe it will work, maybe not. It sure would have been a lot easier to make people pay for it over MSN, though.
Cheers, Dan.
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