From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 07:46:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA13505 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 07:46:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.visigenic.com (odin.visigenic.com [204.179.98.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA13500 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 07:46:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from VSI48 (vsi48.visigenic.com [206.64.15.185]) by odin.visigenic.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA7989 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 07:43:08 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970226074620.008f8790@visigenic.com> X-Sender: toneil@visigenic.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 07:46:20 -0800 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Tim Oneil" Subject: Re: FW: Re: No BSD Communicator 4.0? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 08:39 AM 2/26/97 -0500, Larry Marso wrote: >The user interface is, unfortunately, moving toward M$ IE. It's much much >worse. I don't know what Netscape is thinking! Almost every aspect of the >look and the layout is worse than before (no joke). And it's definitely not >designed with unix in mind. For example, a great feature for X in Netscape 3.0 >is the Alt-L, which opens a *clear* field into which you can input a URL (great >for when you are pasting highlighted text from another window). In 4.0, Alt-L >opens the field with the current URL highlighted (superceding whatever you >highlighted elsewhere). This is a drag. The Microsoft desktop of the future is going to be IE (Bill Gates, last fall in some news conference). To further that end, just as a side note, Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0, now known as MS Dev Studio, will use IE as a front end. Its on their web site. SO- what I guess I'm saying is Netscape is following along and trying to blend in. Its really an intelligent move on their part as a profit company, its either lead, as they did, follow, as they are doing now, or die. My point in all this is that obviously some parts of the port didn't translate well to some flavors of bsd unix, probably. Which is a testament to Microsoft's bold ignorance or blatant disregard for long held and cherished unix standards that have really made open computing a reality. The IE browser (replace 'browser' with 'desktop' soon) veers away from that open standard, pulling Netscape and all the 3rd parties with it. Thus proven standards are breached, and we have the destruction of the SysV and BSD architectures. I hope this cheery thought brightens your day.