Re: RELEVANT QUESTION: Proliferation of Graphic User Interfaces

Mary Morris (marym@Finesse.COM)
Wed, 7 Dec 1994 14:10:03 -0800

> Undoubtedly, other browsers (e.g. Mosaic) will follow suit in recognizing
> the HTML extensions recognized by Netscape.

I'm going to disagree with Cliff here. There is an organization (two
actually - IETF WG on HTML and W3C) that are doing development work on
enhancing HTML. Netscape has chosen a direction that isn't quite parallel
to these organizations, and I forsee an HTML schizm like the BSD/SysV
divide. For example Netscape uses <CENTER> to center text. The organization's
proposed implementation is <P ALIGN="Center">. According to something
I read on their server they specifically chose to use <CENTER> because
the other method supposedly caused some problems with viewers that didn't
support it. I have yet to have seen these problems. Someone also told
me that Netscape is supposed to support <P ALIGN="Center">, but the
last time I looked it didn't.

I don't have a problem with incorporating extensions that are really new.
However, I would like to see Netscape follow suit with the proposed
standards too.

Mary