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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. Betamax versus VHS easily explained by Haxial · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The author claims that VHS succeeding over Betamax is inexplicable. This is an Urban Legend. Here is a well researched article about it:

    http://reason.com/9606/Fe.QWERTY.shtml

    In summary, the main reason why VHS succeeded was that it was superior because it had longer recording times. Betamax was crippled because the original tapes could not hold a whole movie.

  2. simple by t_allardyce · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe im missing something but it seems pretty simple that a good browser should:

    a) Support 3WC standards to the max
    b) Have a separate and intelligent module for rendering badly coded websites that dont follow specs
    c) Use the philosphy that the user gets the final say in what happens on their computer - if they dont want extra windows opening etc then thats their choice.

    oh and d) not be full of really stupid security holes.

    but of course the general public dont want that..

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  3. Start Selling by soloport · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A successful business is kept alive and grows, not through forces of conviction, but through the forces of convection.

    1) Put up a site where people can "order" Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, et al
    2) Charge a reasonable fee (e.g. $5-15 USD, not $50-150 USD and not $0)
    3) Take the proceeds and pay for as many ads as you can afford, all clicks pointing back to the web site
    4) ...
    5) Do not profit -- put all proceeds towards more ads

    With a machine like this, you will blow away all competition.