Re: Old wine in new bottles

[Christopher Pall <x97pall@wmich.edu>]

Umn, like I don't mean to be a "cynic" but the icon doesn't mean s*it.
Microsoft Explorer, the shell, as a result of an upgrade to Internet Explorer
4.0 has IE built in, and I'll tell ya, there's no icon. What needs to be
seperated is the HTML functioning from explorer. I'm fine with FTP and an OS
integration of a file system mount (similar to NFS) but Microsoft MUST not be
allowed to "integrate" HTML document viewing.... (It's like integrating MS
Word (without the editing features) into explorer.

Declan McCullagh wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, P.A. Petricone wrote:
>
> > The more I learn about this settlement, the more it looks like ms
> > technically snookered DOJ into letting them leave the ie code on the
> > OSR2 system with it's buttons hidden, at least for the option that most
> > OEMs will elect to use. If the default file associations stay in place,
> > the first click on a html, gif, or jpj file that may have come with the
> > machine or 3rd party app - off she goes! There are some 200+ ie specific
> > files sitting there waiting for an opportunity to break something.
>
> This is an interesting point. But is it true?
>
> That is, have you verified this by running A/R and also by killing the
> icon?  As a Unix-type myself, I'm not familiar enough with Windows to
> guess at the behavior without trying it.
>
> -Declan
> >
> >
> >

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                       Christopher Pall
        Delphi Programmer & Western Michigan Student (CS)
                          ThinkBiz
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