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[Anirudh Gupta]

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Subject: Re: other Netscape features worth implementing

|>    I too would like to see Netscape's background tags work in
|>   OmniWeb.
|>   

|>   I would like to see text wrapping implemented first. In the new  

|>   Netscape 1.1 or greater releases the tags vspace and hspace
|>   allow an   author to wrap text around graphics. This is really
|>   cool and quite   a few sites are doing this. Ours included.
|>   

|>   A page set up for text wrapping using a browser without text  

|>   wrapping support looks pretty crappy.
|>   

|>   For example try viewing
|>   

|>   http://www2.pcy.mci.net/marketplace/index.html
|>   

|>   with Netscape 1.1 or later and OmniWeb and you will see what I
|>   mean.
|>   

|>   ed
|>   

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I second all this. I do think text wrapping is an important tool. I realize  
that not everyone uses Netscape, but is it not true that _most_ people using  
graphical browsers do? I think I read in EDUCOM that approx. 77% of the Web  
denizens use it, and that is probably the reason we need to start using it too,  
if not anything else. All the talk about microsoft-think approach is quite  
valid, but hey, do you really think we can fight the 77% (if that is closer to  
truth than propaganda!:) and expect to win? I also realize the problems  
involved in making OmniWeb compatible with these tags, so I am going to sit  
here and wait, and use Netscape and OmniWeb both, but mostly Netscape, until  
OmniWeb comes up with a real winner. Please do not get me wrong. I think all  
the democratic effort that has gone in creating this awsome tool for NEXTSTEP  
is very impressive. 


-Ani.