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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. 

Absolutely. Among the more annoying was that it displayed the 
"missing GIF" icon wherever a Netscape  command was 
present. It also did not support mailto or forms, its 
 
interpretation was haphazard, it was slower than Bill Clinton (or me) 
in a marathon, it crashed constantly or gave repeated, errant URL-not-found
messages, even some of its  interpretations were wierd and 
unconfigurable. 

The latest version, which I downloaded a couple of days ago, is quite 
remarkable, however. And that's with just five months of post-release 
retooling and only a month or two of beta testing. Right now I'd rate 
it ahead of some of the older Mosaic versions. 
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ERIC K. MEYER                    meyer@newslink.org 
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