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Per Jacobsen (perjac@inet.uni-c.dk) wrote:
: Flexy (starecjc@hydra.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE) wrote:
: 
: > Why shouldnt a webbrowser like ibrowse or aweb not implement such
: > protocols (gopher://, ftp://, news:// etc.) also ?
: 
: True, it would be much nicer to have it all in one that 500 different 
: programs. At least for the basics, another of one Netscapes success 
: probably. The sensible is build in, and you can plugin the more extreme.

I disagree- I'd _MUCH_ rather use one client to browse the web, another 
to read news, yet another to read mail, etc. I liked Netscrape so much 
better when it was just a browser, and when it took up "only" two megs of 
disk space (The newest version uses over four).

In addition to the savings in memory (and consequently execution speed), 
with separate clients, each client can focus on what it's good at, and a 
user can pick and choose which he wants to run. Maybe I don't like the 
built-in newsreader that came with web browser X. What are my options then?


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