Subject: Re: In a Word, have I seen the future? From: chip@wired.com (Chip Bayers) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 15:51:59 -0700

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>Oh, one fun historical note:  When Word first announced itself a few months
>back, HotWired's gossip columnist ridiculed the proposed layout, saying it
>couldn't be done on the Web. Word must've known something more 'bout
>Netscape 1.1 than HotWired did.

Adam, your historical was fun, it wasn't accurate. Our gossip columnist
ridiculed them because, based on the dummy pages distributed in their press
kit at that time, what they were doing couldn't be done with anything BUT
Netscape, if at all - which is still the case. Try looking at that page in
Mosaic.

We know enough about Netscape 1.1 to try and make pages that won't break on
other browsers (although _all_ the browser makers continue to bedevil us
with their assorted bugs in HTML parsing ability).




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Chip Bayers                                       email: chip@hotwired.com
                         Managing Editor, HotWired
                          http://www.hotwired.com/



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