From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 2 15:50:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (nexus.root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F21837B400 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:50:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g32NmGD02972; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:48:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:48:16 -0800 From: David Greenman To: Terry Lambert Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Brett Glass , Anthony Atkielski , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Message-ID: <20020402154816.K44111@nexus.root.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020401153352.02b99760@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020401184152.00e3ed10@nospam.lariat.org> <002d01c1da0d$f4043130$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020402081116.00e369a0@nospam.lariat.org> <20020402173202.P49279@lpt.ens.fr> <3CAA415F.E8EEACF6@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CAA415F.E8EEACF6@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:40:15PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >> Brett Glass wrote: >> > >You're running a version that contains thousands of bugs and was obsolete >> > >years ago. >> > >> > It's no more buggy than anything else out there. >> >> Well, how does it perform on, for example, >> http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS1/current/ ? >> >> If it doesn't handle it right, it's not standard compliant, it's >> buggy, period. I haven't used IE but from what I've read IE (5 and >> up) is far more standards-compliant than NS 4. Mozilla/NS6 do handle >> this stuff right. > >Why don't we raise the standards bar further? > >If it doesn't support HTTP/1.1 request pipelining, then it's crap. > >I guess that leaves us with Opera as the only viable browser? IE >claims to support it, but it doesn't actually do it correctly. Netscape 6 and Mozilla both support pipelining/persistent connections ala HTTP/1.1, and unlike MSIE, they actually work correctly. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message