Re: Pythia: Really bad ideas

Paul Hoffman (ietf-lists@proper.com)
Sat, 21 Jan 95 13:05:29 EST

To be fair, you should show what they have at their top-level page
<URL:http://pythia.com/>. Note the <i>ized text in the opening paragraph:

==========
<p>This site serves the users and developers of the Pythia Publishing
System. Pythia is an advanced WWW product which is intended for commercial
and scientific applications. <i>Pythia is not a 'general-purpose' WWW
browser. It is not aimed at individual users</i>. It is based on current
HTML/HTTP standards, but has proprietary extensions to support features
like
<ul>
<li>sophisticated page layout
<li>inline MPEG and AVI videos
<li>unique digital signature for every copy of browser
<li>vector graphics
<li>relational database queries
<li>business graphics (charts)
<li>standalone operation (no net connection)
</ul>
==========

To me, all this means is that their customers are probably boxing
themselves into something that will be very hard to get out of later, in
exchange for a few non-standard features now (if those features even work).

Happens all the time in this industry.

--Paul Hoffman
--Proper Publishing