The Browser Wars Are Back?

jpkunst writes "ZDNet UK reports and PCWorld.com report that, according to Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, whose comments came during a discussion with Yahoo Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, 'the browser wars are back', thanks to the emerging popularity of products such as Apple's Safari and the open-source Firefox. Andreessen warned that 'competition could compel the company [Microsoft] to use aggressive tactics to protect its Windows operating system monopoly'."

Comments

Re:Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

when microsoft won and had a big market share and when a lot of web sites only worked in msie

Re:Not surprising

[Doesn't_Comment_Code]

I have a small office, ~10 desktop computers. But I have already moved everybody over to Firefox. I think situations like yours and mine will spur much of the growth that we're going to see by Firefox and other browsers.

First of all, I don't expect the average user to understand the implications of using I.E. And I don't expect them to know that they have alternatives. An administrator can make a blanket decision and override these factors.

This initial move by large businesses has to happen to make it unnacceptable to make non-standard web pages. Any professional web designer worth his salt will make a page that works with every conceivable browser. But many people rely on FrontPage and other such filth. It must become taboo to use Microsoft-Only extionsions on a page. With that advantage taken away from MS, the real fight can begin.

Re:Simple

[DogDude]

Because IE isn't standards-compliant and barfs on standards-compliant pages very often.

As far as these so-called standards go... who says that they're "standards"? I didn't vote for them or the group that designed them. The W3C doesn't own the web. The W3C doesn't even make a web browser! They're just some arbitrary 3rd party making arbitrary "standards". A "standard" is something that's either agreed upon by members using those standards or is de-facto in that it's what a majority uses and accepts. IE is the standard. I'm sorry to break the news to you, but IE's way of doing things has been the standard for several years now. The W3C has been irrelevant for quite a while now. I can say that the new "standard" to make a hyperlink is to use the [thisisahyperlink] tag, and it would be about as relevant as the W3C. So, accoring to my "standards", no browser measures up!