[9717] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Microsoft IE -- it just gets better and better
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M. Hedlund)
Mon Jan 29 13:41:32 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 10:30:46 -0800 (PST)
From: "M. Hedlund" <hedlund@best.com>
To: Mike Meyer <mwm@contessa.phone.net>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <19960129.7616B58.969A@contessa.phone.net>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Just specifying text/netscape-html probably works for 90% of the
> content providers who care, as most of them seem to want nothing more
> than to distinguish netscape from the rest of the world.
[...]
> Yes, it's not a complete solution, and it's not perfect. But it solves
> the majority of users problems, and is a lot better than what we've
> got now.
I disagree, although I'd like to be able to agree. If Netscape had
implemented this when they first added extensions to HTML, this would be
workable. Since, however, I still get _plenty_ of hits from pre-1.1
versions of Netscape, we would still be left doing UA negotiation for a
very long time.
This is a stopgap solution, but it doesn't fill the 'gap'. Old versions
of Netscape and other browsers would prevent this from working.
Marc Hedlund <hedlund@best.com>, <marc@organic.com>
