This is the commercial computer world, maybe the most fast paced, pressured competitive environment ever . These products are evolving so rapidly, so headlong, that the development of standards in a rational sense, or maybe better to say in a planned manner, just doesn't happen. I recently read an article in The Economist describing an economist's attempt to debug what might be called the VHS/BETA myth, where an inferior standard defeats a superior one out of sheer obtuseness of the consumer. Companies come out daily with more features in their hardware/software. With enough marketing muscle and enough obvious advantage, and a lot of luck, these features become standards. PCI, EDO, HTML, W95, it makes the head spin. So, if Netscape has [temporarily] grabbed the golden ring, and makes a good product besides, then not only does it make sense to go along, but its sort of inevitable, at least in the short term. Eric Siegel [log in to unmask]