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Re: Good move from IBM.
- To: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: Good move from IBM.
- From: <frodo(at-nospam)sharat.co.il>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:17:43 +0200 (IST)
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NH>> heard of HTML until a year later), why do you think that it is
NH>> too late now? And too late for what? If you mean too late for
Too late for producing browser platform that will make serious competition
to MSIE. MSIE has become de-facto standard. Especially in Israel. If you
don't believe - look how many Israeli sites have big banner "This site can
be used only with MSIE" and even doesn't allow any other browsers to
enter. A lot of them.
NH>> Linux to dominate, look at what happened to Linux in England -
NH>> Linux has always supported English. Do you think this made Linux
NH>> more popular in England than Windows is? :)
No, it didn't - but definitely for english-speaking person it's easier to
use Linux that for Hebrew-speaking (how many text editors support BiDi?).
And I'm sure what contiributed significantly in Netscape's downfall is
negligence to "small things" - not only Hebrew, but 1000 of other small
things.
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