It's the difference of so many providers who already use "standard extending technologies" (as M$ likes to put it) that make some web sites only fully functional to IE clients. Now, if they add another layer that say's there has to be a trust relationship before they will server you data... then you are completely screwed if you are not running M$. It goes way beyond some sites using QuickTime or some other format. At least now, some sites are partially non-functional... if this make any progress, sites will become totally non-functional to any non-conforming free thinker. - Herman On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Anders Johansson wrote: ->On Friday 20 September 2002 23.06, Herman L. Knief wrote: ->> You're missing the point. The issue is adoption by contect providers of ->> any sort. If they adopt, then unless you are running a "trusted" client ->> (read M$) then you are screwed. -> ->That could be an issue yes, but the issue is exactly the same as content ->providers using proprietary file formats for which there are no linux ->clients. I see no difference whatever. And no, trusted clients needn't be MS. ->It could be RealPlayer, it could be QuickTime both of which are big enough ->that no content provider would dare leave them out. -> ->//Anders -> ->