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Browser Wars Mark II

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-this-episode-V-or-II dept.

Nigel McFarlane writes "I have no life (humour) other than to write articles about Web technology and open technologies, and the way they mediate, enable and transform our public places and our participation opportunities. Mostly I write about Mozilla and Linux, but my latest effort is an attempted wake-up call over Web standards and the future of the Web." Self-deprecation aside, it's a decent article that summarizes the stakes well.

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  1. It's STILL all about the games by JMandingo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Until Mozilla is "backwards" compatable enough with IE to run games from the likes pogo.com then I have to stick with IE on Windoze.

    Gotta keep the wife and kids happy and numb, or else they might figure out I spend all that hard earned money at the strip clubs.

    --
    Vonnegut was right: Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."
  2. Mozilla is better than IE? by Animats · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I use recent versions of Mozilla for everything, on Windows, Linux, and QNX, and I'm not too impressed. It has long pauses. It crashes. It corrupts its mail files. It corrupts XUL.MFL and won't start until you delete that file. And all those problems have been occuring for years.

    One of the lessons that developers keep forgetting is that databases are hard. Look at the classic troublesome applications: Sendmail, BIND, and Netscape/Mozilla. Each of those programs has its own third-rate home-grown database system. In each case, the database has little or no integrity-preserving or checking machinery. So the database and applications break down.

    Microsoft uses Jet, their little embedded database system, for such things. Jet isn't a great database, but it's better than most of the amateur efforts that show up inside open source apps.

    If you need a database, use a database. At least something at the BerkeleyDB level.

  3. Re:simple by MBraynard · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The article is about the treat that Microsoft poses to the web as we know it.

    Is it a salty tasty treat or a sweet tasty treat?

    Oh, and your mispelling agrees with my point of view that embrace+extend is about giving greater capabilities to web developers and users. Why does MS have this interest? They want to lock in their way of using the web. I don't see a PROBLEM here. I see a benefit. Someone wants to make the web more capable to persuade me to use their services. GREAT!

    Come on and admit it that you are angry that Web standards aren't being established by a commune of burnt out hippies on the WC3 (warcraft 3??) or whatever but are instead being made by folks who wear suits and have big houses. (Pardon my troll).