Re: NIU Homepages and HTML to use

Eric Behr (behr@math.niu.edu)
Mon, 16 Oct 1995 20:59:36 -0500 (CDT)

sfahey@niu.edu:
>
>If you know what "type" of HTML each browser prefers you should be able to
>configure your server to send the appropriate document. Of course, you still
>have to write and maintain complete sets of HTML documents for each HTML type.

Yes, I know it's possible, but this is _precisely_ what the HTML standards
committee is trying to avoid! (and I very seldom agree with committees ;-)
Thanks. E.

PS. I just got my copy of October Sun Expert, and I found Peter Collinson's
critique of the Netscape extensions. It more or less confirmed my worries.
Netscape Corp. is now in the position IBM was in 20 years ago. They can do
pretty much what they want, because the market forces are now fully behind
them, and mcom.com seems to be rather carelessly taking advantage of this.
I don't like it one bit. I don't want a single player with good marketing
department to spoil a wonderful idea, much like Microsoft messed up the
desktop, or like IBM used to muddle up computing in general.

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