Re: color: NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and HTML3
Jon Wallis (jw@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk)
Wed, 19 Jul 1995 07:36:49 +0100
>Wow, are you guys out of touch with reality or what!
>
>In case you hadn't noticed, Netscape is running on almost 5 million desktops
>with a 60% market share. Most of the Web page designers that I work with, and I
>work with many, include Netscape extensions without thinking twice about it.
>
>In this case, the tail is definitely waving the dog. Those who ignore dominant
>market share in an increasingly commercial WWW are bound to be swept right off
>the playing field.
If Netscape designs the playing field, expect it to have incompatible grass that
changes colour 15 times before you've got onto the pitch. Oh, and you've got to
use a square ball (although it might have to be hemispherical in the next
release, if they think that's cooler).
regards,
--
Jon Wallis Senior Lecturer in Information Systems Engineering
School of Computing & I.T., University of Wolverhampton, UK - WV1 1SB
Tel/Fax +44 (0)1902 322203/322680 http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1906
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