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Browser Wars 2004

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the soapbox dept.

J. Hobbs writes "Recent posts on David Hyatt's site describing the new technology he's working on for Dashboard, coupled with recent announcements from the newly formed WHAT-WG alliance (Apple, Mozilla, and Opera) could add up to a potentially new kind of application development and deployment that I explore in this highly speculative essay. See if you don't agree..."

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  1. Make (browser) war! ... by jellybear · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not peace!

  2. Down with IE by ThatWeasel · · Score: 3, Funny
    I want IE dead with the rest of the dead browsers just like the next /. poster but the fact isn't lying in the web browser but the web developer. Stop jumping on the latest and the "greatest" but just create a webpage that I can visit on any browser. Yes, this means programming for Lynx, the text based browser.

    I thought Safari was the best until I ran into a new website using Flash 7.0 which I wasn't prompted for nor asked to download and it wasn't until I tried it on my Win2000 machine that I figured out what was wrong.

    Just stop it. Just stop moving forward until the rest of us catch up before you deploy the next level of interactivity to the web.

    IE is dead in the water if you listen to the government. Too bad the entire world isn't listening to the American Government.

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    TW
    Television is dead. Long live That Weasel Television

  3. Browser War, what is it good for? by Yo+Grark · · Score: 5, Funny

    Browser War
    What is it good for
    Absolutely nothing

    Browser War
    What is it good for
    Absolutely nothing

    Browser Wars is something that I despise
    For it means you can kiss standards good-bye
    For it means tears in thousands of coders eyes
    When they have 2 sets of code to mess up their lives

    Browser War
    What is it good for
    Absolutely nothing
    Say it again
    Browser War
    What is it good for
    Absolutely nothing

    Browser War
    It's nothing but a heartbreaker
    Browser War
    Friend only to the patent maker
    Browser War is the enemy of all Webkind
    The thought of another browser war blows my mind
    Handed down from Corporation to generation
    Induction destruction
    Who wants standards to die

    Browser War
    What is it good for
    Absolutely nothing
    Say it again
    Browser War
    What is it good for
    Absolutely nothing

    Browser War has shattered many OSS giver's dreams
    Made their widgets disabled and broke, Free Time is too precious to be coding indoors each day
    Browser War can't give family life it can only take it away

    Browser War
    It's nothing but a heartbreaker
    Browser War
    Friend only to the patent maker
    Open Source, Standards and understanding
    There must be some place for these things today
    They say we must fight to keep our freedom
    But Lord there's gotta be better than MS'S way
    That's better than
    Browser War

    Browser War
    What is it good for
    Absolutely nothing
    Say it again
    Browser War
    What is it good for
    Absolutely nothing

    Yo Grark

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    Canadian Bred with American Buttering
    1. Re:Browser War, what is it good for? by howman · · Score: 3, Funny

      Am I the only one who read this hearing Jackie Chans voice in my head...

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      flinging poop since 1969
  4. Re:nice but by Gherald · · Score: 4, Funny

    > to clear cache, priacy stuff

    Are you missing a V, or did you just misplace that R? ;)

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  5. Re:Surfin' Safari webpage by flatface · · Score: 2, Funny
    Wow, most people don't read the articles, but you've just given us a new standard to follow-- Not reading the story.

    I just can't wait until we start skipping the article title, too!

  6. Re:Not ONLY Faster, lighter, but also IE-compatibl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes, after all, OS/2 was a decent operating system, and its Windows compatability layer really helped it to gain acceptance.

    </sarcasm>