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On Fri, 31 Mar 1995, Dave & Jacqui Kramer wrote:

> At 6:10 PM 3/30/95, Josh Hartmann wrote:
> >Also, Jeremy Allaire wrote recently something about preferring to watch
> >Netscape's and Spyglass's beta efforts than what Arena is doing. This
> >doesn't make much sense to me. Have you read the HTML3.0 proposal from the
> >W3C? It does far more than anything Netscape has talked about, and it does
> >it in a much more sensible fashion. And so it's best for content developers
> >to start thinking about these issues and how their older content can best
> >be adapted to take advantage of new features. You need to start modelling
> >your content with a browser like Arena. Yes, Netscape looks real pretty
> >today, but in six months (well, maybe longer :) when browsers (including
> >Netscape) support HTML3 those publishers who have thought ahead will have
> >much more impressive content to offer.

> Only one problem. I don't have a UNIX workstation to run Arena on. Nor will
> I; I was lucky to get a 486 that was bought specifically for writing and
> updating HTML. At this level, Netscape is by far the most popular and
Remember, Arena is to HTML3.0 what Mosaic was to HTML.  Netscape added 
proprietary extensions and is not available in source.  I can get Mosaic 
for Unix, Solaris, Linux, BSD, AIX,... and Windows(3.1, 95, AND NT).  
Arena is the Reference Version.  People will submit extensions, 
enhancments, bug fixes, and about $1 million worth of free engineering, 
then the developers of Arena will release a proprietary version that has 
features like Acrobat and Microsoft Word OLE, for somewhere between $40 
and $400/copy.  The server will run somewhere between $100 and $100,000/copy.

> useable browser with the most flexible array of features (I won't argue
> implementation of HTML 3.0 here).
Netscape has some fine features.  Of course I can't use Cello on a 
Netscape Server, nor can I use Secure Sockets on Mosaic or Webster.  And
user authentication on LYNX, forget-it.

> I cannot design for a browser I'll never see, or, at least, won't see for
> six or more months. We'll talk when there's a PC or Mac version available.
> :)

Congratulations, you are browsing the Internet on Netscape.  TCP/IP 
included 1 million man-hours to get up to it's current level of 
usability.  The web browser was the product of about 5 million man-hours, 
and the platform on which it was developed (Unix) is another 50 million 
man-hours.

For $69, you can turn your 486 box into a Linux engine, down-load 
Netscape for Linux, Edit your home-page using EZ, and download the basic 
HTTP server for free.  If you start getting a lot of visitors, you can 
spring the $25 grand for Netscape, and about $30,000 for a Unix engine
and unlimited user license.  They will even include the "Unsupported
software library", which is updated about 4 times/year.  The "Supported" 
software is upgraded (for a fee) about once/year.

> \\ D a v e and J a c q u i K r a m e r -- T h e  W r i t e r s'  B l o c  //

	Rex Ballard


From rballard@cnj.digex.net Thu Apr  6 10:53:07 1995
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