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Re: How will Netscape/AOL Merger Affect Us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lloyd Sumpter)
Tue Nov 24 13:49:43 1998
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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:44:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Lloyd Sumpter <Lloyd.Sumpter@BCHydro.bc.ca>
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On 24-Nov-98 Daniel Cody wrote:
> Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
>> and more. So if Version 5 is even bigger and uglier - so what? I'm not going
>> to use it, anyway!
>
> Doubtfull this will be the case. NS 5.0 will be one of the most compact,
> efficient, and tightly coded browsers(dare I say pieces of software)
> ever!
> http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/
>
> Sure you could stay with nw 3.x forever, but you'd be missing out on
> some great features that are in 5.0
>
...Yeah, OK. "Features" like..."Lets incorporate...a Word Processor! Yeah,
people would use that! And maybe...a OODB Manager as well! I'm sure users
would like that!"
How about a novel idea: A web browser that browses the web. A mail-reader to
read the mail. A news-reader to read the news. Not one giant program that tries
to do everything - that thinking comes from the run-one-program-at-a-time
DOS/WIndows world.
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