17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Meta-noise, but I don't plan to lose any sleep over this.... Someone writing as Alice de 'nonymous writes:
The Netscape Navigator client was DESIGNED to be controlled remotely from any machine on the Internet. This is the "flawed algorithm". W3 was meant to be hypertext ... not a gateway that permits a server to deliver customized byte bombs down a clearcut path by remote-control.
Maybe I'm just too sheltered. But in a couple of years on the Net, I've only ever seen _one person_ write "W3" as an abbreviation for World Wide Web before now. Alice, meet Fred. Fred, meet Alice. -Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>