> >There's a huge party in SF today and a breakfast party here in A'dam,
> >organized by the legendary hac-tic ppl who did "Hacking till the end of
> >the Universe" etc. on the '80s and in April 14th there's the first
> >International Browser Day, when artist show the own experimental browsers
> This is terrible. I'm so "out of it" I don't even know about this. So
> will we be able to look at the experimental browsers online? How?
I've been a bit suprised how little publicity all this has gained. Like if
people didn't really understand what's going on or then it just isn't that
important afterall. Or it will be important only after a while and gets
the publicity then .. like with the gTLD-MoU Autumn'96 and this publicity
around domain-things now 1,5 years after it.
mozilla.org, openscape.org, waag.org and million other's plus of course
Wired etc. tell/hype about this now, I've been mostly hangin around on IRC
and following how the compilings go and will attend the breakfast party
tomorrow. I'm doing my own pages too but there's too much confidential
still so I need to edit it tomorrow and publish then. One quote:
<Nat:#linux> Dauphin: Netscape has done an amazing thing. The world is
moving towards a point of tremendous freedom of data. To me, it's the
trend that's important, and if the NPL doesn't have any major bugs,
there's no big issue.
Some people have managed to compile Netscape 5.0 today but most have not
been able to run it, it seems to pretty awful code, but it's interesting
however to see how it actually parses HTML etc.
Like <Nat> says the trend is important, never mind Netscape. About the
browser day there's not much out yet but it'll also be in the Waag
(www.waag.org) where the breakfast is tomorrow. Only thing I could find in
English (the site is mostly in Dutch) is this from Nettime
(http://www.factory.org/nettime/, we're working on a Finnish nettime btw)
.. feel free to forward!
http://www.factory.org/nettime/archive/1552.html
Press Release
De Waag - Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam,
organises;
The 1st International Browser Day
&
Public Domain 2.0 - A public debate on the future of
the public domain in the media.
Date: Friday April 17th, 1998
In: Paradiso Amsterdam.
1st INTERNATIONAL BROWSER DAY:
Paradiso: 12.00 - 17.30 hr.
The browser is the entrance to the world-wide
networks, an information and
communication standard. The browser is the face of
the media. The browser
determines how we see the events that occur in the
media. During the browser day the significance of the browser will be
examined. Aside from the battle between Netscape and Microsoft over
standards (the 'browser war'), alternative browsers for the Internet will
be presented, a.o. by the writer Matthew Fuller (London) and Internet
journalist David Hudson (Berlin).
Students of the Rietveld Academy, the Utrecht School
of the Arts - Faculty for Art, Media & Technology, and the Sandberg
Institute will present their own browsers, submitted for the 1st
International Browser Competition.