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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. I don't see what the advantage is by rd_syringe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The article told me, "You're probably wondering what advantage this will give you over today's plug-ins." Then it tells me I can just drag plug-ins to run them. I don't see how this is different from just clicking a link to run an XPI. He talks about dragging them off the page so they sit in a persistent window. What's so different from just clicking a link that opens a seperate browser window itself? And with Mono/.NET, we will already have net-based applications that blur the line between desktops and browsers, but without even needing a browser to begin with.

    I guess I just think it's a neat idea, but I don't see what the advantage is or why I should care considering what's already out there.

  2. Serious question for mod by rd_syringe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why is this "Insightful?" What a waste of a mod point. Why don't you use it, I don't know, to mod the grandparent down to -1? Or use it elsewhere?

    "v sick" isn't insightful in the slightest. It's just pointing out the obvious over a standard troll.