[Dailydave] Databases are too easy.

[Brian Caswell]

On Oct 10, 2006, at 2:52 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
> Who would have thought browsing a webpage could launch random other  
> applications on your computer? Nobody, until microsoft decided to  
> let IE launch office applications, and invoke media player, and  
> whatever else.

Wrong.

ViolaWWW had support to run external programs in 1992.  Arena,  
released in 1993, supported executing external programs via mailcap  
entries.  As did Mosaic, which was also released in 1993.  Internet  
Explorer was first released with Windows 95, which was released in  
1995, nearly 2 years later.

Microsoft made no such decision.  They followed the already accepted  
standard.

I used Arena for my primary browser for years, up until Yggdrasil  
stopped work on it.

Brian