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AP reports on renewed "Browser War"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CNN and others are reporting an Associated Press story on "the revived browser war" with Mozilla paired against Microsoft. It seems the 1.0 release is creating some waves out there. " Considering most people consider the war long since over, I can't imagine this mattering much.

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  1. A bit of history by b.foster · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Microsoft won the browser war because IE4 beat the hell out of any other browser that was available at the time. In fact, IE4 beats the hell out of the latest Netscape 4.7x release on any platform.

    Unfortunately for Bill Gates, his company has rested on its laurels. IE6 offers little that wasn't present in IE5, and the many useful features in Mozilla 1.0 (tabbed browsing, anti-popup features, speed, stability, and security) mean that IE will be losing a significant amount of market share very soon.

    And how can we complain about that? May the best product win - again. It's nice to see open source come out on top.

  2. Frosted glass by jlusk4 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspira l/glassy.html

    Those of you using IE will need to switch to Mozilla. Those of you using Mozilla won't even notice the part that doesn't work under IE, it feels so natural.

    Cool effect that works only under Mozilla and just feels right. Now who's at the disadvantage?