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Subject: Re: This is ridiculous!

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 19:53:41 10/18/99

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On October 18, 1999 at 20:37:52, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:

>
>>>If you install Windows 98, it will install IE4 or IE5 depending on the version
>>>of Windows 98. Just because you like Netscape more, that does not mean that you
>>>cannot have more than one browser installed in a single computer.
>>>Laurence
>>
>>
>>...and happily waste 40 Mb on your hard disk.
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>As a Fritz 5.16 owner, I have to agree with Christophe, and maybe start to think
>about being a Chess Tiger owner...
>If programmers want to handle html with their programs, it's no problem. That's
>just not important, it doesn't improve the engine! What we chess players want
>are better programs to play and analyse! It doesn't matter if it can do html
>code (besides, I can do it myself!).
>As a ChessBase customer, I would like to see a new Fritz that works with any
>browser. That's what I call smart programming, and clever marketing.
>
>A. Ponti

I don't think anyone is using HTML components in the engine.

The purpose is to use it for online documentation.  It is becoming extremely
common to use HTML/SGML/XML formats for online docs.

Dave



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