RE: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Steve Richter
>
> as I see it, the innovations in the browser were URL links, content more
> important than layout, the nested table, and javascript.  Whoever is
> responsible should get an attaboy.  Knowing nothing, but going by
> the profit
> motive theory of innovation, I would bet that netscape was responsible for
> the latter two.

NCSA came up with an entirely new paradigm for viewing data over the
Internet, one of the few times where the word "paradigm" actually fits.

You figure that's LESS of an innovation than enhancements to the basic HTML
language (one of which was little more than a scaled-down Java).

Let's see - neither the nested table or javascript would exist without the
web, but the web could exist just fine without either one.  Can YOU pick the
innovation?

Joe

P.S. Technically the very first browser was written in 1990 on a NeXTStep
machine at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee.  Other browsers were written as well,
but NCSA really picked up the ball and ran with it.  Who did the work?  Marc
Andreesen and a long-forgotten guy by the name of Eric Bina.  When Andreesen
started Netscape, he actually paid the university for the Mosaic code (but
not until they sued him).