[thelist] Stop Word, Excel, PDF loading into browser

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Crawford [mailto:joe@artlung.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 12:57 PM
> To: thelist@lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Stop Word, Excel, PDF loading into browser
> 
> Right - but shouldn't the server be at liberty to tell the 
> browser what
> a file is?
> 
> The server ought to know better than the client what filetype 
> it's sending.
> 
> As far as the bundling issue - it's not very bright to treat foreign
> servers in the same way as the local filesystem or local network.
> 
> 	- Joe

you'd think, but obviously that's not the case.  for example, for those of
you with windows 98 (or win95 and windows update), by default it's setup so
that the line between iexplore.exe (the browser) and explorer.exe (windows
explorer, the shell) is extremely vague.  if you type in the address bar c:\
or such, you browse your local system the exact same way as if you'd opened
up My Computer.  And vice versa - open My Computer and you have buttons for
Back and Forward, and can type a web address in the Address Bar to go to an
internet site.  this is all part of Microsoft's attempt to bring the
Internet to the desktop.

and as a preview of coming attractions, i've been using Win2k for the past
month or so, and it's integrated IE5 into the OS just as much as Win98, if
not even more.  so get used to it.  bend over, here it comes.

Aaron  :)