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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. To the trenches by alex_ware · · Score: 0, Redundant

    everyone to the trnches
    so the fight is not over firefox will fire a shell at i.e. ;-) snigger

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  2. I stopped reading this when... by tkrotchko · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I stopped right when I ran into this sentence:

    "Examined objectively, VHS just wasn't as good as Betamax."

    I stopped not because of a difference of opinion, but simply because the author displays an ignorance of why VHS "won". Hundreds of authors have rehashed this canard so I won't repeat it here

    But if the author doesn't understand why VHS won, then its a good bet why he can't or won't understand which browser will win and why.

    Its hardly even worth discussing the article.

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  3. Incorrect . by polyp2000 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Beyond the Foundation are many other Mozilla-enabled browsers such as Konqueror

    Urmm, unless im missing something brutally obvious; I thought that konqueror was based on khtml and not mozilla.

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  4. Re:Well... It's up to us... again. by trezor · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I like webstandards. I like what they were ment to achieve. I don't like people directly opposing that.

    The day I meet a website saying "Requiring .NET" I will put that site as a 127.0.0.1 hosts entry, but that's probably just me.

    Someone might call it an overreaction, but wtf. See if I care.

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  5. Re:How does .Net make a separate web? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It means that Microsoft is trying to lock the Web into a playing field that it alone controls. However, they need to run pretty fast to catch up at this point. If they had done this year or last year, I think they could have done it. But now, companies really are waking up to the value of having their information in standard formats that they won't have to shell out $X every year in order to get access to. If you can't access your data without paying money to Microsoft, is it really your data?

  6. I guess I'm not with linus on this one by Quantum+Jim · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Note that the original WorldWideWeb browser and all early clones displayed multimedia in separate windows. It was Mosaic's (and later Netscape's) ability to display images and other multimedia inline that led to the rise of the Internet. Inline interpretation of sound, video, and other applets are just a generalization of that idea.

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