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Re: How will Netscape/AOL Merger Affect Us?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Wed Nov 25 06:16:18 1998

Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:17:28 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <365B51B4.E2E3606B@eburg.com>; from Gordon Messmer on Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 04:39:16PM -0800
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Gordon Messmer writes:
[...] 
> 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?

a) there is no such thing as WYSIWYG with HTML. Common misconception.
b) Netscape is not a HTML editor - it's a program that is able to output
   some ASCII code that vaguely resembles the page layout language that is
   called HTML - but it is *not* valid HTML in most cases.

SCNR,

Thomas
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