Subject: If you don't use NetScape... :-( From: ddern@world.std.com (Daniel P Dern) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 17:15:02 -0400

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Call me Ishmael@luddite.com.  I'm using a shell account via a terminal 
emulator for most of my net activity, though I do have a SLIP account
and fire up NetScape there, and sometimes use SLIPknot on my shell account.

In the past few weeks,

o I've seen home pages that start with the equivalent of
  "If you're not using NetScape with   the 1.1 extensions, this page
   will look weird or just plain butt-ugly" 

   or

   "...you won't be able to use most of my stuff."

o I've found top-pages that consist mostly of  ISMAPs
  IMAGEs and whatnot, with no option of us text-only browsers

o I've found some sites that simply wouldn't respond.

o plus sites that are so image-laden that under, say, SLIPknot or NetCruiser,
  I found myself reverting to my older habit of "click here, go out for cup
  of coffee."

We might as well get a flag that intercepts the request and alerts
the user, "This site requires features you don't have, are you sure
you want to bother?"

Mm, would that request count as a 'hit'?  

DPD

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