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Date:      Wed, 25 Dec 2002 06:59:18 +0100 (CET)
From:      Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
To:        Andrew Brampton <andrew@bramp.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc:        newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MS panel applets; was: BSD or Linux?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212250646090.175-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <005901c2ab60$543c4000$0100a8c0@andrew>

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> This is not a windows flaming list, and do we care if windows doesn't have X
> or Y, FreeBSD lacks some features that windows has, and windows lacks some
> of FreeBSD features, because they were made for different tasks, and by
> different people that prioritised things differently.

Its not a question of this or that, it is a question about standards in
the net, usability in general. 

And I like MIME, like I like email.

IMHO the cleanest implementation of MIME in a browser is still lynx with
.mailcap and .mime-types, you have the association of a MIME type with an
application and can teach the browser, which extension it should give the
file for the application. Applications with hardcoded extensions....
Try this with Mozilla etc..

.mailcap etc, it was as simple as this in WIN 98SE and now it isnt
anymore.

And this isnt bashing, it is just an observation.

TCP/IP illustrated III sotosay.

And when we have some dear and noble person from Redmond on our list, why
should I not ask him? ;-)

Maybe he wants to reply and so I dont want this topic to die!

H.



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