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Re: Enforce reloading of page when using the back-button
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arjun Ray)
Wed Mar 8 23:08:03 2000
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 22:59:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Arjun Ray <aray@q2.net>
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Grahame Grieve wrote:
> [...] the web may not support my application. But this attitude
> runs contrary to accepted wisdom, which is that the web is good
> for everything.
Ah yes. The Golden Hammer. The real problem, though, is the
obsession with the Mosaic spawn. "It's gotta work in Netploder".
It's a state of mind and ultimately, FUD.
We need new *classes* of software on the web if it's ever going to get
out of the crippleware rut.
Arjun