From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 95 10:40:21 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Barring access to Netscape
Message-ID: <2.2b7.32.19951206184122.00836cd4@mail.teleport.com>
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At 03:28 PM 12/1/95 -0500, you wrote:

>You can get your server to simply put that at the top of every page
>served to a Netscape client, followed by a horizontal line and the
>normal web page. It should be easy to put together the hacks to do
>that and get them out to lots of people. Watch how fast people would
>switch from Netscape, especially were it widely deployed. You would
>then watch a fast fall in Netscape stock, which would likely piss Jim
>Clark off far more than anything else one could do.

This type of page hack is pretty easy.  Take a look at _HTML & CGI
Unleashed_ from Netsams press.  Page 410 has a script that can be easily
modified to do something similar.  (Great book, but lacks some of the more
advanced server redirect tricks I have seen elsewhere.)  The example is for
displaying an optional display for browsers that cannot deal with image
maps.  It can be altered to do the same to any browser.

>We need HTML 3.0 capable browsers for all platforms, though.

They (the W3O) need to agree what HTML 3.0 consists of before that will
happen soon...

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