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[Richard Mercer]

> William Shipley sat in front of a keyboard and typed:
>> We take a very realistic attitude towards our
>> competition; NetScape owns 95% of the market, and thus
>> is the standard. OmniWeb will be compatible with
>> NetScape; if they interpret a name tag a certain way
>> then we will too.

>  	Unfortunately, NetScape is *NOT* standard. There
>  is an HTML 2.0 Standard (it's recently become a
>  RFC) and Netscape uses extensions that quite go beside
>  the point of HTML. Personally, I'd rather see browsers
>  to adhere to the standards and not to the commercial
>  world standards.

Mr. Shipley was not referring to official standards, but the realistic  
effects of market dominance. Not only for 90% of Web users, but also  
for a depressingly high percentage of Web authors, Netscape is simply  
the all there is.  


One of the most disgusting examples is when you go to a page and find  
it is (in OmniWeb) entirely purple underlined text. The reason: the  
HTML for that page contains a Name construct that is simply
<A NAME="My Trash">
and is never closed with a </A>.
Apparently Netscape accepts this construction, and the authors never  
know the difference until somebody points it out to them.
As repulsive as I find this, I hope OmniWeb 2.0 will accept it too, so  
we won't have to look at so many purple pages.

Richard Mercer