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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. Re:1st for the 1st time by akeyes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Come on Anonymous Coward, you know you have been first before.

  2. The Grudge by Scoria · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Mod me flamebait, but are we intentionally excluding Microsoft from the browser development community now? Apple, Adobe, Macromedia, Opera, and Sun are definitely interested in causing Microsoft to become financially insolvent. If Microsoft were defeated, those corporations -- corporations that also attempt to profit and dominate markets -- would lose their incentive to remain "benevolent." Competition is good, and the Microsoft engineers have probably learned from many of their mistakes; thus, they may actually be able to contribute valid advice here.

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  3. "Dashboard" by dekeji · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Would Apple kindly stop stepping on names already used by the open source community? Calling Macintosh OS 10 "OS X" was bad enough ("are you running X on your Mac"?).

    Dashboard is Nat Friedman's implicit query system for Gnome. That's been around for a while.