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To: Logos who wrote (8297)	6/4/1998 5:27:00 PM
From: Hal Rubel	of 74651

Fear of Microsoft -Innovation vs Marketing A Item from MacOS Rumors, 6-4-98. "Microsoft previews Internet Explorer 5 developer release, prepares "Gotcha" Everyone knew it was coming. Microsoft's Internet Explorer "gotcha," where it would begin sharply deviating from the other Web standards, now that it has "embraced" them. It's time to "extend" them -- in ways that will work only in Microsoft browsers. According to sources, IE 5.0 will add a plethora of Dynamic HTML (a 4.0-browser-only standard of advanced in-HTML features) features that will work only in IE 5. These advancements will require that Web developers adopt IE-only development, and with Microsoft's OS market share leverage, the company is expected to release the complete suite of content-creation tools, based on its FrontPage line, to be the "first and best" HTML design application capable of making pages that will take advantage of the IE 5-only capabilities. Netscape sources report that they do not expect to support IE 5's non-standard DHTML, and instead plan to focus on surpassing Internet Explorer's other speed and feature advantages with Mozilla 5.0 -- hopefully, they say, leaving Web developers to drop IE-only support for wider compatibility." This is the sort of rumor the other camp's fears feed upon. Sounds a lot like a parallel to the Java thing. FYI Hal

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