Re: Industry Standard's Net 21
Robert S. Thau (rst@ai.mit.edu)
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:33:09 -0400 (EDT)
Koen Holtman writes:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Robert S. Thau wrote:
>
> [...Netscape...]
> > All I'm trying to say is that in *one particular case*, they don't
> > deserve sole blame for the breakdown; they have no such defense for,
> > say, jerking around HTTP (which had a working group which generally
> > did a much better job).
>
> They jerked around HTTP? I don't recall any incidents; I'd rather say
> they practiced benign neglect.
>
> I'd be interested in examples.
Buggy range support and the poorly-thought-out cookie spec are the
usual complaints...
rst