[WEB4LIB] Re: Future of HTML

[David Merchant]

>I would hope the latter.  The version 3 browsers are _several_ years old,

Several?  

>don't support current [web] standards (as mentioned previously), and lack
>features (IMAP4 support, newsreaders that don't suck etc).  I'm sure someone
>will raise the (tired old) point that "NS3.x is so much faster".  Faster than

Tired but often valid.  Here at our setup, with IKIOSK and WinU, NS3 has a
very very noticeable difference in speed to NS4 or IE4.  Noticeable.  That
and it takes up less resources (which if we weren't so cash strapped
wouldn't be a problem, but >sigh< unfortunately I only recently got memory
upgrades for them).

TTFN,
David
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