Reg -
I can use third party clients with IE. Where's the substance?
If you click on a mailto:<...> tag (like the one you see on the top of the form when you're replying to a SI message, do you get a MSFT mail client? Can you change that? I can, Netscape allows me to. That's the substance. Win98 changes that. No matter what my default browser, when I click on an embedded URL, I bring up IE, no matter my preferred browser. End of story. End of choice.
MSFT suported all web features up until DHTML, if I am wrong simply point it out.
There are a variety of ways that IE doesn't (and didn't) conform to the various RFCs. If you're really curious, do the search yourself.
So basically you are saying that one cannot fire up and run the Nav executable on Win 98. If you are not, you are being quite misleading.
No, Reg, I'm saying that if a user clicks on a hypertext link in Win98, that user has no choice as to what browser to use. That's limiting the choice of the consumer to no choice. That's bad for the consumer, and end the end, bad for progress and for the marketplace.
try and administer a Enterprise server with IE.
I wouldn't try and admin an Enterprise server from anything other than a GNU util's equipped command line, and neither would any other competant sysadmin with half a brain. For hell sake, MSFT requires installation of IE for admin tasks even on a C2 secure system! Lunacy!
-justinb |
