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Re: How will Netscape/AOL Merger Affect Us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Messmer)
Tue Nov 24 19:43:01 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:39:16 -0800
From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com>
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Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
>
> On 24-Nov-98 Daniel Cody wrote:
> >
> >> ...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!"
> >
> > Not trying to start a flame war here or anything, but wtf are you
> > getting stuff like that from? When has a word processor or anything even
> > close to resembling that been mentioned as an add on/in with the
> > Netscape browser?
> >
> OK, I was exaggerating a bit. But there IS a mail-reader, a news-reader, and
> an HTML editor. It's not inconceivable to combine the built-in news/mail editor
> with the HTML editor, add some WYSIWYG, and get a word processor. I'm not
> suggesting that this is a good idea - I'm saying that the same mentalitiy that
> incorporated the other "features" might see this as an good idea.
> I was compaining about the "features" that Netscape had already incorporated
> that I find useless and serving only to bloat the code.
>
Really, the mail/news editor already IS combined/integrated with the
HTML editor, and all of them are WYSIWYG. And word is that MS Office
2000 will use HTML (maybe DHTML or XML too) as it's STANDARD format.
So Netscape is, and Word will be (isn't that the MS way??) HTML
editors. Graphics capable, WYSIWYG editors with a spell checker.
What else constitues a word processor?
MSG
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