Labels:text | screenshot | document | font | number OCR: IBM WebExplorer " Rehanced for tetsoupe ~ The Readable Verst File . Options . Configure Navigate QuickList Help Ha! NOT IN NOT SCAPH Yeah, right, my home page is Netscape Enhanced alright. Nope, I'm trying to avoid use of Netscape-specific tags, with the exception of one deeply ironic use of the <BLINK> tag and the use of a 14-point rule at the top of my page to Iuli you into a false sense of security .: You really wanted to find out about why Netscape is so wonderful? It's not! Netscape is the source of all evil in the HTML Diuniverse. Well, maybe that's stretching things a bit, but they certainly seem to have missed the point somewhere <ban>NETSCRAPE</ban> The point of HTML, and of SGML; the standard from which HTML is derived; is to eliminate dependence on a given platform to view electronic documents by marking said documents up on the basis of their content and letting the display softwie control the layout based on its limitations and capabilities. The result is documents that can be displayed end comprehetided on anything from a 2400 baud vt100 connection with a shell account to a DEC Alpha running X Windows and a fully graphical browser with a direct Ti connection to the Internet. Perhaps more importantly, marking up by content produces intelligent documents, documents that can be searched by computers with the knowledge that, for example, a reference to the iteln for which you are searching that appears in a first-level heading is likely to be more Current URL: http: //www. mes.net/Tratph/html/notscsperhtml Figure 3. Anti-Netscape crusade. This particular navigator/browser, Web Explorer, does not support many of the Netscape extensions. If it did, this page would be virtually unreadable - which is the author's intention. The effect is most pronounced when viewing this page with side-by-side navigator/browsers.
