Re: Interesting side effect of the new IE patch

[whichy-yp <ypwhich () io com>]

You're right, that is for FTP...which is a different protocol.  Back then
I was using Netscape after I switched from lynx, and yes things do tend to
"blur together" using one tool, pros and cons.

As for the average Internet user, I doubt they care whether or not the
Internet extends beyond their browser or email client.  For them it's a
tool, it does what they need it to and that's it.  Some how I doubt it's a
product of Netscape's "bad choices".  Let's face it, average users want
something that is easy to use.  Be that something a POS like Windows or
IE.


On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Szilveszter Adam wrote:

> Which is totally irrelevant, since it is about FTP urls. That part is
> RFC-compliant and still works. Why do people think that just because you
> can use the same (rather poor) all-singing-all-dancing tool to access
> certain services, then these must be the same thing?  Oh wait, there are
> still people who think that it is the "www" in the name that makes a web
> server... (It seems Netscape founders really made some bad chioces way
> back then when they decided to integrate several tools into their web
> browser. Just to make it easier on the layman user... now there is a
> whole generation that thinks that the Internet is pretty much what's in
> the browser. Brrrr.)
>
> Regards:
> Sz.

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