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Date:      Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:48:16 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix
Message-ID:  <20020402154816.K44111@nexus.root.com>
In-Reply-To: <3CAA415F.E8EEACF6@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:40:15PM -0800
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020401153352.02b99760@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020401184152.00e3ed10@nospam.lariat.org> <002d01c1da0d$f4043130$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020402081116.00e369a0@nospam.lariat.org> <20020402173202.P49279@lpt.ens.fr> <3CAA415F.E8EEACF6@mindspring.com>

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>Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
>> Brett Glass wrote:
>> > >You're running a version that contains thousands of bugs and was obsolete
>> > >years ago.
>> >
>> > It's no more buggy than anything else out there.
>> 
>> Well, how does it perform on, for example,
>> http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS1/current/  ?
>> 
>> If it doesn't handle it right, it's not standard compliant, it's
>> buggy, period.  I haven't used IE but from what I've read IE (5 and
>> up) is far more standards-compliant than NS 4.  Mozilla/NS6 do handle
>> this stuff right.
>
>Why don't we raise the standards bar further?
>
>If it doesn't support HTTP/1.1 request pipelining, then it's crap.
>
>I guess that leaves us with Opera as the only viable browser?  IE
>claims to support it, but it doesn't actually do it correctly.

   Netscape 6 and Mozilla both support pipelining/persistent connections
ala HTTP/1.1, and unlike MSIE, they actually work correctly.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
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