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John Cowan wrote:
> Uche Ogbuji scripsit:
>
> > It seems you're the one missing history. The browser was hasn't been an
> > HTML-only proposition since Netscape and Microsoft took over. It you're us
> ing
> > Mosaic as your benchmark of what a browser has always been to users and
> > developers, I think you're setting up a gigantic straw man, and I, for one,
> am
> > not following you there.
>
> Indeed, even Mosaic could handle multiple formats, notably including GIF.
I remember it started quite a stir on the WWW mailing
list when Mosaic (unilaterally) added the <IMG> tag to
HTML!
The main innovation of early Web browsers was that they
supported multiple *protocols* -- HTTP, gopher, ftp, and WAIS
were the main ones -- not multiple formats.
Uche's right, though; what early web browsers did or did not
do is largely irrelevant.
--Joe English
jenglish@flightlab.com
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