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John Cowan wrote: > Uche Ogbuji scripsit: > > > It seems you're the one missing history. The browser was hasn't been an > > HTML-only proposition since Netscape and Microsoft took over. It you're us > ing > > Mosaic as your benchmark of what a browser has always been to users and > > developers, I think you're setting up a gigantic straw man, and I, for one, > am > > not following you there. > > Indeed, even Mosaic could handle multiple formats, notably including GIF. I remember it started quite a stir on the WWW mailing list when Mosaic (unilaterally) added the <IMG> tag to HTML! The main innovation of early Web browsers was that they supported multiple *protocols* -- HTTP, gopher, ftp, and WAIS were the main ones -- not multiple formats. Uche's right, though; what early web browsers did or did not do is largely irrelevant. --Joe English jenglish@f...
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