Pushing the envelope

Found this rather interesting example of slogan reuse while browsing Netscape's homepage on the wayback machine. Right at the bottom of the page, a reference to 'Netscape ONE, the Open Network Environment'. Fast forward 6 years and a joint venture or so later, and we have Sun ONE: Open Net Environment. Wow, they have been planning this for a long time, apparently.

Conditional Get Update. Various news aggregators are leaping on the conditional get bandwagon. (108 Words) [The Fishbowl]

Its somewhat ironic that all this effort is suddenly being devoted to make aggregators only perform full GETs when they are needed, when as anyone who's ever developed a public facing stateful web-app knows, its usually a knock-down drag-out fight to prevent misconfigured proxy servers from caching all your pages (and cookies, some of them) for all eternity and breaking your app in a variety of interesting and humorous ways.