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Pastimes : Linux OS.: Technical questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (101)	10/1/1998 3:21:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 484

I am going to hazard a guess its 60% running Apache and Perl 5.01. Reason is its all free. I have heard Apache is 80% penetration. It of course has a CGI interface. The trouble with non CGI is that where is the standard? You would have to do Sun Java or Ms Java to get a page otherwise and leave 50% of browsers behind. I would like to see XHTML browsers and maybe dynamic HTML make a standard in a page saving browser like Opera without the bugs. I can see the need for SGML (Panorama type browser) and in browser editing soon as people demand more page control over sites. The CGI security holes have to be plugged. Less usability is not the way to expand net access. We should be beating the drum for XHTML and on the fly editing of sites from the browser. Only B headed in that direction is the very mysterious Arena. I don't really know what its status is. Got those cascading style sheets though. EC<:} More is more.