New Python WebMail app

[Aaron Fransen]

Hm, I understand your concern Roman, but for the purposes of my "customer
base" if you will, the functionality of HTML 3.2 simply didn't provide the
tools I needed to complete the app.

Alex: Yeah, Mozilla 6 does support IFRAME...but only as a display window,
not as an edit window. This is where I wonder what Microsoft's motives were:
Was IFRAME designed within the HTML spec to be an editing window? Or is this
a Microsoft hack?

The scuttlebutt is that some future version of Mozilla (near? far?) will
support some kind of rich-text editing function, and whether that will be
IFRAME or not is anyone's guess...except the developers of Mozilla of course
:)

"Roman Suzi" <rnd at onego.ru> wrote in message
news:mailman.1000729400.18090.python-list at python.org...
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Alex Martelli wrote:
>
> > "Aaron Fransen" <aaronf at NOSPAMtelusplanet.net> wrote in message
> > news:fQxo7.43891$Gi6.5026247 at news0.telusplanet.net...
> >     ...
> > > It's got address books, HTML support (like HotMail, but only on IE of
> > > course...at least until Netscape and Opera suppor the IFRAME tag), a
full
> >
> > Mozilla 6 does support IFRAME (which is perfectly good standard HTML
4.01
> > after all), so I would expect Netscape 6 to (doesn't it...?) -- see
> > http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/upgrade_2.html.  Opera 5 also
> > support IFRAME, of course.  So does KDE's Konqueror.
> >
> > Netscape 4.* is, of course, a zombie -- a walking dead still going
> > around doing damage.  (Yes, yes, I know I used exactly the same
> > metaphor to describe DDE a week or so ago -- feels completely apt
> > in both cases to me).  There are (barely) enough copies of NS 4
> > still in use, as to inhibit web designers who need to reach a
> > really wide audience from using standard HTML -- just because
> > a browser designed many years ago was unable to support the correct
> > standard and some people (who understandably don't want to upgrade
> > to NS6, heavier and still rather buggy; and, less understandably,
> > don't want to move to light, fast, solid Opera, or to any of the
> > several decent open source browsers around) stick with it.  Sigh.
>
> Nonetheless, some of us use Netscape 3. And I still use Netscape 4 while
> waiting for stable Mozilla.
>
> And, of course, those who has something to say use HTML 3.2 ;-) Everything
> else is for special needs. Usually sites with "heavy design" are empty
> information-wise and on the contrary, those who has good content to share
> could use simpler means. I really hate when site is using some js instead
> of a-href.
>
>
> Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
> --
>  - Petrozavodsk - Karelia - Russia - mailto:rnd at onego.ru -
>
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