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Why Browser Innovation Matters

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the building-the-best-ones-out-there dept.

dvanatta was one of a several people who noted a new article by Mitchell Baker on Mozilla.org about why browser innovation matters - especially Gecko, and why it will survive things like Safari Whoops - got the name wrong. Updated.

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  1. Re:Browsers et al by mattrix2k · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hmmm .... how do you avoid buying cars from big companies? Surely you don't want ANY monster company to dictate or control your driving experience.

  2. Re:Author is Mitchell Baker by Jaysyn · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or her parents for spelling her name like that...

    Jaysyn

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  3. Re:Author is Mitchell Baker by thelexx · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or her parents for naming her Mitchell to begin with...

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  4. Innovation? by heroine · · Score: 1, Troll

    There's no real innovation happening in Mozilla at the feature level. It may have the best object oriented programming but it's slow and has no more features than Netscape did before Microsoft killed it. So few people use anything but IE and so much of the multimedia on Linux is just Windows binaries emulated in Wine, it's easier just to run a real copy of windows and IE.

  5. Re:Inovate by rmohr02 · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you like your normal context menus, don't install the above. I installed it once and it nearly drove me crazy.

  6. Re:Unnecessarily complicated by scovetta · · Score: 0, Troll

    Quite possible, I'm sorry I'm coming across as being very angry-- I think the Mozilla folks and the rest of the *nix crew does great work, I really respect them for that.

    But to respond, even if Mac OS X has achieved that middle ground, why hasn't that software been ported to Windows? (Ok, I can't switch operating systems, that's not feasible, but show me a web browser that renders like IE _AND_ does more, cool, more productive stuff, whatever.

    How about this as a middle ground: Have a check-box on the browser toolbar, call it "Emulate IE", and when it's checked, it looks just like IE would render it. Then the browser can also render "correctly", but when I go to a site that was coded for IE specific extensions, it renders it that way. That would be ideal for me.

    Also, I believe it's unfortunate that my mantra has to be "simple is more important than powerful". I would much rather live in a world where the best written software is used, and the rest is weeded out. Alas, that's not the world we live in.

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  7. Re:Inovate by puddpunk · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have a logitech wireless mouse that is perfectly egg-shaped, fits in my left or right hand. It has a scroll-wheel/butoon and works fine under windows and linux. You, sunshine, need to get a grip, and perhaps some brains/manners.