[WEB4LIB] RE: OCLC and Browser versions

[Cramer, Steve]

  OCLC is not the first vendor to require users to use a 4.x browser. AP 
  Photo Archive, which debuted last fall, uses some weighty javascript and 
  will not run on 3.x browsers. 
  
  As more database vendors use javascript or java to increase the 
  capabilities of web databases, I'm sure we'll see more "4.x only" 
  interfaces.
  
  Steve Cramer
  Reference Librarian
  Perkins Library
  Duke University
  Durham, NC USA
  scramer at mail.lib.duke.edu
  


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Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: OCLC and Browser versions
Author:  msauers at bcr.org at BITNET/INTERNET
Date:    2/11/99 11:47 AM


> 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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