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

• To: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Subject: Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa rs!
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:50:25 -0600
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Joe English <jenglish@f...> of "Mon, 21 Oct 2002 08:27:36 PDT." <200210211527.g9LFRa302200@d...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> 
> Paul Prescod wrote:
> 
> > Len, the Web architecture was always designed to make it easy to switch
> > HTML out. HTML has been an optional feature since day 1.  [...]
> > [...] The web browser is the application that was designed to
> > handle every content type and new content types and tasks all of the
> > time.
> 
> That's not how the Web worked on day 1 though.
> 
> The original version of HTTP only delivered HTML;
> MIME types weren't added until HTTP 1.0.  (You could
> stick a <PLAINTEXT> tag at the top of a text file,
> but that was part of the HTML layer, not HTTP.)

OK.  This explains a lot of Len's comment that zipped right by me before, but 
I certainly am not talking about "day one".  I can see no point in talking 
about that.  Who cares?  I'm talking about the Browser as popularly conceived 
and deployed.  This certainly post-dates day one as you describe it.


-- 
Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net    http://4Suite.org    http://fourthought.com
Python&XML column: 2. Introducing PyXML - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/25/p
y.html
The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 1 - http://www.webservices.org/ind
ex.php/article/articleview/663/1/24/
The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 2 - 'http://www.webservices.org/in
dex.php/article/articleview/679/1/24/
Serenity through markup - http://adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6807
Tip: Using generators for XML processing - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork
s/xml/library/x-tipgenr.html

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