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Netscape Founder Says Web Browsing Innovation Dead

Posted by timothy on from the 640k dept.

mattOzan writes "Marc Andreessen told Reuters today that browser innovation ended five years ago (which would put us at about Navigator 4.5 beta -- what was so innovative about that? The "What's Related" button? Beatnik integration?) "Navigation is an embarrassment. Using bookmarks and back and forth buttons -- we had about eighteen different things we had in mind for the browser." Well, pass me the NDA and tell me what they were!"

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  1. Web Browser or Standards by waldoiverson · · Score: 5, Informative

    I like to think of some web browsing items that have become refined. Tabbed browsing comes to mind *prepares to be attacked by anti-tabbers* I don't think you can separate the browser from the protocols that the browser renders. Thus, if the browser is really just a rendering too and information manager, it does it's job well. Maybe the problem is we haven't fully utilized the protocols available and thus a feeling of stagnation has taken place.

  2. Re:Some features I would like to see by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's called "prefetching" by the mozilla developers (and no, it's not like when yer real drunk and you say "hey, she's pre' fetching" mozilla.org FAQ on Prefetching