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Re: How will Netscape/AOL Merger Affect Us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Gaume)
Wed Nov 25 15:02:48 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:01:36 +0000
From: Thomas Gaume <tom@flwireless.net>
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Yes, but if you ever looked at the html code generated in Netscape it
truly is terrible. I wouldn't mind it if it was at least a decent
editor, but half the stuff you write in there does not view properly in
any browser except for Netscape.
Gordon Messmer wrote:
>
> 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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