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RE: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa rs!

• To: 'Uche Ogbuji' <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Subject: RE: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa rs!
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:02:57 -0500
• Cc: 'Paul Prescod' <paul@p...>, xml-dev@l...

Not exactly.  Some frameworks are evolving to 
make using the classic HTML browser (ie, HTML 
as the host language of a universal intergace) 
less necessary.  It is much cooler.  I also said, 
if we want to use the term "web browser", that 
term becomes less descriptive of a specific 
platform and becomes more a watered down way 
to say, "web aware because it can use the 
operating system web services without using 
a line of HTML".  

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Uche Ogbuji [mailto:uche.ogbuji@f...]


> I have been carefully saying "HTML Browser". A
> client can be web-aware and XML-capable and 
> never touch HTML.  So we agree.  A dedicated 
> client may not be browsing; it may be processing 
> only that XML that it cares about.  My position 
> is that, and I did say this, that what we 
> call a web browser could change.  In that sense, 
> any client on the system can be web aware and 
> can still be smart.

So when you said "the broswer lost", you meant "the browser evolved"?  I know 
that's less cool sounding, but saying so up front would have saved us all a 
lot of talking past each other.

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