[9718] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Microsoft IE -- it just gets better and better
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Meyer)
Mon Jan 29 13:59:56 1996
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.91.960129102015.17945C-100000@shellx.best.com>
From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 10:42:59 PST
To: www-talk@w3.org
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
> 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.
If NetScape had done that, we'd also have lots of real-world
experience doing content negotiation.
> This is a stopgap solution, but it doesn't fill the 'gap'. Old versions
> of Netscape and other browsers would prevent this from working.
I agree completely. However, this argument applies to ANY stopgap
solution. It also hinders a "complete" solution - content providers
have to either deal with older browsers (including the NetScape 0.9
I'm still getting hits from) or ignore them.
Unless there is a complete solution that's close, some form of stopgap
would be a real benefit to almost everyone.
<mike
