Subject: RE: AOL undermines publisher's interests From: hontzd@PrimeNet.Com (Dan Hontz) Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 03:05:50 -0700

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Interesting the critical words on AOL's browser -- but I don't remember that
many surfacing when Prodigy rolled out its Web looker. As I recall, it
didn't support some things, including transparent .gifs, in its first days. 

Regardless, Prodigy's, AOL's and CompuServe's browsers have all been
diappointing. From what I've seen, they're all slow and don't come close to
html 3.0 (please don't flame me for implying that new browsers should).

Perhaps it's good enough for now, and perhaps things will improve  when
enough online-service users sending mail to support@aol.com,
support@prodigy.com or support@compuserve.com saying, "A friend of mine
showed me what the web looks like in (netscape, mosaic, whatever), and I was
wondering why (insert online service name here) can't make it work as well."

That, or a significant number of users will become sophisticated enough to
ditch their major online services and sign up with a cheap, local Internet
providers. 




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