[6178] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Netscape v NCSA, Progress?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe English)
Mon Oct 17 18:48:54 1994
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 23:46:45 +0100
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From: Joe English <jenglish@crl.com>
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marca@neon.mcom.com (Marc Andreessen) wrote:
> Absolutely. Which is why we are and will be openly publishing all
> new protocols, formats, interfaces, etc. that we happen to develop
> in order to satisfy customer demands for new functionality that can't
> be addressed with existing protocols/formats/interfaces,
I apologize if I'm jumping to conclusions, but this
doesn't sound encouraging. Are you saying that Mosaic
Communications will collaborate with W30, browser
implementors, and the user community *while designing*
new protocols and formats, or are you only saying that
you'll publish them *after* they've been designed (and
implemented, and released to the public [less than a
week before the the spec writers plan on finalizing a
critical Internet RFC])?
Mozilla will undoubtedly take over NCSA Mosaic's "market niche"
(and desevedly so! the application and documentation are
top-quality). I just hope it doesn't take over NCSA's
role of 800-pound gorilla along with it.
> and which is
> why we're bending over backwards to be fully interoperable with existing
> implementations on both the client and server side. Interoperability
> is obviously the lynchpin of this whole environment, and in everyone's
> best interest.
This sounds more encouraging.
--Joe English
jenglish@crl.com
