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AP reports on renewed "Browser War"
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.
Its only a matter of time until someone in a shack in some third world Asian country finds a hole in Mozilla, and then using the available source code finds out how best to expolit it and reaks massive havic over the land of Mozilla users. At least with MS Exploder there's no available code to read and use to make your worm just that much better.
When the happens the whole open-source thing will be questioned in the media, MS will jump on that bandwagon, and see ya later Mozilla and watch out Linux.
And especially when almost any site work well with IE, and a few have problems with Mozilla. IE has won the browser war, it's a sad fact, but even I am not going to switch just to be politically correct. I use IE under windows as long as it works best, and is still a free download.
than web designers will again have to consider netscape/mozilla when doing pages
No thanks, I don't want to have to write two seperate sets of code because Netscape doesn't want to conform to the standards. Screw AOL users. They should get their heads out of their asses anyhow.
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
Mozilla is for nerds by nerds isn't it? :)
Ryan T. Sammartino
"Ancora imparo"
"I can't imagine this mattering much".
How hypocritical to be so in favor of open source but irredeemably dissing Mozilla. Oh wait, compare the kind of work that went into slashcode and the quality of the resulting codebase to the Mozilla project. Maybe Taco's definition of open source doesn't include quality code developed by a professional team using good software engineering practices.