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Andreessen on the Browser Wars

Posted by michael on from the if-you-can't-beat-em dept.

Pauly writes "In this interview, Marc Andreessen dismisses the likelihood of a renewed browser war based on the release of Mozilla 1.0. He cites Microsoft's current monopolistic market share, and dares anyone to try and fight it."

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  1. I DID read the article... by thebigmacd · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    From experience as a web browser, I find that a majority of websites are created to support IE. The versions of Netscape that I am slightly familiar with have great difficulty adhering to CSS and HTML standards. For example, Netscape seems to have difficulty accepting that if a stylesheet specifies a black background and white text, the page should be displayed that way. Netscape in this very isolated example displays the background correctly, but the black text that should be white is unreadable. My website passes the W3C validation tests for CSS and HTML, but still doesnt display correctly on Netscape. Many windows users have both Netscape and IE installed, and my acquaintances that have Netscape usually revert to IE after ten pages don't display correctly. Until this is fixed, there will be customer dissatisfaction. Just my two cents.

  2. Competition by bjschrock · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My attitude is, everybody should try competing with Microsoft once in their life. Once.

    Actually, my goal is to be able to sucessfully sue M$ for a lot of money someday...

  3. Re:Who cares? by Kharma+Pimp · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    First, I agree with you. However, I have a tiny nit to pick.
    I assume you wrote could care less without considering what you really meant.
    If you'll take a brief moment to think about it, you probably meant couldn't care less.
    Consider the following:
    I could care less that that it is against the law to order buffalo shit from a website, but not much less.
    Compare that to:
    There's a site that sells buffalo shit? I could not possibly care less! Who wants buffalo shit?
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  5. Re:Doesn't this sound realistic? by flacco · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Six letters - S U B A R U

    Looked at 'em - wife hated 'em :-)

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