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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <bal.jemmett@ukonline.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Interactive Fiction Timeline
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"John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:3BE35826.53988796@attglobal.net...
> Because every other browser does.
Lynx doesn't.  I'd hazard a guess that links, arena, Nettamer, Arachne and
amaya don't either, but I'm not sure about at least two of those.  Still, I
only need to provide one counterexample to show your argument to be
invalid...  :)

> Because this is an act of sheer spite on Microsoft's part, as witness
> the fact that the code is still there, and can be activated by a secret
> Registry change.
Is it still there in the IE6 release code?  I wouldn't know, the only thing
I've noticed in IE6 is a proliferation of useless toolbars...

> IE is for slaves.
Hmm...  Well, I have Netscape 6.1 on this box, and I don't like it; I use
IE6 because I do.  It's nicer to use than Netscape, so I frankly don't care
if it's for 'slaves' or not.

But as I said, I'm not lurking (well, I'm not lurking any more either) here
to argue about browsers.  I just don't think IE is the evil some people
perceive it to be.
--
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)


