[WEB4LIB] OCLC and Browser versions

Michael Sauers msauers at bcr.org
Thu Feb 11 11:32:35 EST 1999


> I just don't understand what OCLC could not do with HTML 3.0 that is so
> critical, so important?  Without the CSS or HTML 4.0 tags they will not be
> able to deliver some information AT ALL?  I find that hard to believe.

I believe that it has to do with the Java and/or JavaScript implementations
in the site, not the HTML or CSS.  However, I have not yet seen an exact
technological answer from OCLC yet as to why the browser requirement.

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