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FAQ: Do you love Microsoft?
Author: Dave Winer Posted: 2/27/1999; 8:23:40 AM Topic: Mail to the Future Server Functionality Msg #: 3291 (In response to 3290) Prev/Next: 3290 / 3292
Before anyone complains, yes we know that we're developing software that requires Microsoft clients at both ends. Only MSIE 5 supports XML-RPC. And I am told that only Outlook and Outlook Express will work with the DHTML we generate in the message.I've asked Marc Canter to write a brief white paper explaining how this is forward-looking. It's not our intent to only work with Microsoft clients for all time. We intend to point to a future where bandwidth realities are taken into account. Quite a few people have 56K and more. DSL is becoming more common. Corporate intranets run at T1-or-greater speeds, the same with cable modems.
We hope to create a demo app that's studied in board rooms and at analyst and product planning meetings. To show the rest of the industry what's possible when bandwidth is embraced, when you design *above* the least common denominator. That's how we will create updraft in the clogged-up and slow standards process of 1999. We want to generate excitement among other developers to coalesce around a new layer of functionality that embraces bandwidth. XML-RPC support is a very key element.
There are responses to this message:
- Re: FAQ: Do you love Microsoft?, Marc Canter, 2/27/1999; 8:32:54 AM
- Re: FAQ: Do you love Microsoft?, Jim Roepcke, 2/27/1999; 8:59:48 AM
- Re: FAQ: Do you love Microsoft?, Robert Occhialini, 2/27/1999; 10:44:01 AM
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