Ryoko's Cave now opens!


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from Leo Sutic <100040.600@compuserve.com>
subject Ryoko's Cave now opens!
date 11 Jul 95 07:17:52 EDT
Lanzer, Stainless Steel Rat, I'm too lazy to write two messages...

Lanzer wrote:
Lanzer> Just like the Sasami Shrine, Please have a browser that
Lanzer> supports HTML V3.0, which means you'll want Netscape 1.1, and
Lanzer> Mosaic users will see virtually nothing. (sorry)

You *can* access Ryoko's Cave with Mosaic. The only difference is that the
browser will cheerfully ignore any tags it doesn't support. The text comes
through fine, and if you've designed the pages in an even remotely standard way,
that should be enough.

Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
Rat> 1) HTML 3.0 is *NOT* an accepted standard, yet, so "requiring" it at
Rat>    this time is downright foolish. There is exactly *one* HTML 3.0
Rat>    compliant browser out there, and that's Arena, and it's nothing more
Rat>    than a testbed for HTML 3.0 and not a finished product. Not to
Rat>    mention that it's only available for some Unix systems.

No big deal. As the standard gains popularity, more and more will be able to see
the "complete" Cave. Providing, of course, that the standard *does* get
accepted.

Rat>2) When you "require Netscape" you effectively say, "well, you suck 'cuz
Rat>   you're not using this really cool browser".

C'mon, he's not... Several PC games requires a 486DX-66. That's not because
anyone not having that processor sucks, but simply because the developer had to
use specific features unique to that processor in order to create the game he
wanted. And as I said, as long as the text comes through, it's cool.

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