CBFalconer wrote: > Chris Head wrote: > > .... snip ... > >>Why can't we use the Web for what it was meant for: viewing >>hypertext pages? Why must we turn it into a wrapper around every >>application imaginable? > > > Because the Lord High PoohBah (Bill) has so decreed. He has > replaced General bullMoose.
Not particularly his doing. SGI was using a Netscape plugin to distribute and install operating-system patches when Billionaire "Intelligent Design" Billy was still denying that TCP/IP had a future. And there are places for web forums: public feedback pages, for example. (Add RSS and/or e-mail and/or NNTP feeds for more advanced users.) -- John W. Kennedy "The grand art mastered the thudding hammer of Thor And the heart of our lord Taliessin determined the war." -- Charles Williams. "Mount Badon" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
