Re: FLASH: BROWSER WARS - What developers should do . . .

[Ben Park]

I just think Netscape/AOL and MS are taking the piss!


I mean, you'd never get away with this anywhere else - If you had to have a

different TV to watch each individual station, because they were

broadcasting using different systems, then there would be huge public

outrage, yet on the net, they seem to be able to get away with it!


Why can't Netscape and MS both support exactly the same technologies?


I mean, MS Word and Corel Wordperfect are almost identical, yet they both

still have their own followings, so they can't say that if they were both

the same then they would lose any business.


I'm holding out for some company like Nullsoft (makers of Winamp) to wave

bye-bye to AOL, and write their own web-browser, that works with everything

around at the moment, is updated frequently to support new technologies,

actually works *with* the people like Macromedia to make new technologies

work in their browser, and doesn't hog 95% of the computers resources doing

almost nothing.

Is that too much to ask?


/me gets down off my soap-box now quietly, and runs away so as not to get

flamed.


Ben


-----Original Message-----

From: JGL <

infodesignthenet [dot] com

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To:

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Date: 10 April 2000 03:08

Subject: RE: FLASH: BROWSER WARS - What developers should do . . .



>Now that's the kind of info needed for the headaches and paranoia we

>experience when developing with this new technology.

>

>But I can't wait til june . . . I want to do what I can now! And besides .

.

>. my fear is that www.scripthor.com is a single entity acting on a behalf

of

>itself to be profitable. Not a bad reason to start something like that, but

>I TRUST the people on this list. We all have a common goal - to develop

>killer sites that work everywhere insuring happy viewers, thus happy

>clients, and therefore making a living for ourselves.

>

>Helping each other. A non-profit organization.

>

>There is just too much non biased brain power here.

>

>I'm not willing to wait for MS, AOLN, or anyone else to tell me what to do

>and how to to it. I want my compatibility fears to go away now!


>Above email shortened so as not to fill everyone's in-box's up<





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