Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 20:38:57 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: Pete Ehlke <pde@ehlke.net>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Message-ID: <20020403203047.B96787-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <003901c1db8c$de49fde0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > What in the world is an "Internet-related API"? How could Navigator, or any > other software product, run under an OS and talk to the Internet without > using an OS-specific API to do so? in thise case, i suspect it would be winsock for the TCP/IP stack. this is windows 95, after all. although, honestly, i don't know enough about windows, or programming on windows, to be sure about this. > > Developers of network-centric applications > > thus would not be drawn to Navigator's APIs > > in substantial numbers. > > When did Navigator ever provide any kind of API? why should it? navigator is an application, no different than any other on windows, macos, or unix. > > Therefore, with the encouragement and support > > of Gates, a group of Microsoft executives > > commenced a campaign in the summer of 1995 to > > convince Netscape to halt its development of > > platform-level browsing technologies for Windows > > 95. > > Well, they didn't succeed, because I used Navigator for a year or so after > 1995, until MSIE was good enough to replace it. i used navigator for years. on windows i use IE, due to ease and simplicity of just having the browser there, upon install of win2k. on UNIX i either use Konqueror or Mozilla, depending on the flavour. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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