Re: OT: One Laptop per Child

In article <fjiq2g$rg2$00$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer@xxxxxx> writes:
George Cook schrieb:
In article <fjggcb$2cm$01$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer@xxxxxx> writes:

Well, "official" Mosaic stopped at 2.7-sth IIRC.
This version is unable to render most of the stuff
which is around in the WWW today.


I am curious why you think "official" would be a requirement?


I'm well aware that you are the current maintainer of Mosaic.
This is of course appreciated and I might consider it even
for other historical platforms left in the cold
as far as browsers are concerned.

However, I'm curious how a single person can hope to keep
up with the ever changing web standards, as compared to the number
of people working on Mozilla, Firefox, Opera etc.
And as compared to the number of people working at M$ to spoil the
standards.

One person can't if you want everything Mozilla, etc. does, but a
lot of what they do is little more than bloat. If I understand
correctly, Firefox resulted from that realization. Yes, css and
javascript are needed for many web pages, but I don't remember
any web page I have needed to use which required Java.

One of the purposes of VMS Mosaic is to provide a very fast, light
weight browser which doesn't depend on a huge amount of the latest
and greatest bloatware. Motif 1.1 and a TCP/IP with UCX compatibility
are the only requirements for everything except secure connection
support.

Mosaic also makes a decent VMS file browser (unlike Mozilla which
uses Unix syntax).

Unfortunately, I agree completely with your comment about M$
spoiling the standards. The crap that is produced and passes for
valid HTML is incredible. A bunch of moneys at keyboards comes to
mind. As a computer programmer I find it embarassing.


George Cook
WVNET
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