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Aaron Fillion <afillion@home.com> wrote in message
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> Netscape has always been more based on standards than IE.
>
> One example of where this does not help on the win32 platform is in the
way
> Netscape handles MIME types. Netscape uses MIME types supplied from the
server,
> IE ignores MIME types. The end result, a Unix web server that has its MIME
types
> improperly configured causes Netscape to incorrectly download files in
ASCII
> mode rather than binary. IE just ignores that MIME type and downloads the
file
> in binary mode. Selecting Save as... does not help, the file will still
download
> incorrectly when using Netscape.
>
> Standards are not always a good thing.


Netscape's support of W3C standards, such as HTML 4.0 and Cascading Style
Sheets, has been nothing short of pathetic. While Internet Explorer is also
by no means perfect, it has come much further than Netscape in this respect.

This is not a new problem -- Netscape has always insisted on introducing
proprietary tags, rather than sticking to the standards. Remember <BLINK>?

James