Netscape Founder Says Web Browsing Innovation Dead

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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[Master of Transhuman]

Yeah, and all those things are in Opera, too.

Oops, last night I browsed to a crack site (that's software cracks, not the other kind) which proceeded to load and apparently sent some JavaScript or something which INSTANTLY crashed Opera (V7.11) AND Windows Explorer AND took down the whole damn machine (Windows/98, no fuckin' surprise...)

I think browser "innovation" died when some moron came up with scripting languages that by definition cannot be supported properly by ANY browser because 1) they keep changing faster than the browsers; and 2) nobody can use them properly because they are programming languages, not markup code (and poor markup code was enough of a problem, but at least that just made the page look funny).

In my opinion, JavaScript (and Java applets intended to run as part of a Web site - as opposed to actual Java programs) are DEATH to the Internet and should be banned...

You want dynamic pages? Have the browser call a C++ or Java program binary directly and screw all this other crap...JavaScript, Java applets, Flash,
Perl scripts, Jesus, what a nightmare...

As William Burroughs might say, "Get some standards in here and clean out all this garbage!"