• To: uche.ogbuji@f... (Uche Ogbuji)
• Subject: Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa rs!
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:10:23 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: clbullar@i... ("Bullard, Claude L (Len)"), paul@p... ('Paul Prescod'), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <E183RwT-0002G6-00@m...> from "Uche Ogbuji" at Oct 20, 2002 08:04:57 PM

Uche Ogbuji scripsit:

> It seems you're the one missing history.  The browser was hasn't been an 
> HTML-only proposition since Netscape and Microsoft took over.  It you're using 
> Mosaic as your benchmark of what a browser has always been to users and 
> developers, I think you're setting up a gigantic straw man, and I, for one, am 
> not following you there.

Indeed, even Mosaic could handle multiple formats, notably including GIF.

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