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In article <5bvhel$emc$5@euas20.eua.ericsson.se>,
tina@spirou.uab.ericsson.se (Tina Marie Holmboe) wrote:

>   Ah, so you tell your customers that they will have to pay for extra time
> put into developing item X to fit more browsers ... in other words: you tell
> your customers that they need to pay for something which will happen
> automatically with correct HTML.

Nah. I offer them that if the particular design that they happen to like
doesn't suit all browsers, which is quite often the case these days. Most
of them tell me, once again, that Netscape 2.0 will be just fine.
 
>   Where did I put that law-book ? Nah; why bother. I believe in
> Darwinism.

... which means adapting to the environment. Which means, in terms of the
WWW anno 1997, to listen to the market. Which means to produce very
graphical sites with Java and Shockwave, and preferably an embedded QT
sound file or two.

If the market happens to change, so that we're back at grey backgrounds two
years from now, guess where I'll be.

>   Its been said before: you allready *HAVE* tools that do this: PostScript
> and PDF. HTML _was_not_designed_ for what you want to do with it.

No. But it works.

> > because--as David Siegel points out--Netscape think that their browser will
> > be the ultimate browser, the total product. Microsoft will pretend to be
> 
>   The Final Solution, hm ?

What do you think? That they and Microsoft will both lose their market
shares? That Lynx will be the new #1 browser a few years from now? Won't
happen. Netscape Communicator/Home Assistant v8.0 will cook your food for
you and Microsoft World Explorer99 will take you on a return trip to
Saturn. Because this is the interactivity people want. Do remember that
millions of people bought the plot of 'The Net'.

//thomas
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