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Browser Wars Declared Over?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everyone-just-afraid-of-losing dept.

Kelson writes to mention Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera and Google took the stage this week at the Web 2.0 expo and in addition to discussing pressing issues have declared their intent to avoid another browser war. All the panelists agreed that security was the largest concern currently facing browser developers. "Brendan Eich, the chief technology officer at Mozilla, said that security was hard and always will be. 'I don't think we should take security lightly; it's an end-to-end problem and we have to step outside the current model to win on this front,' he said. For his part, Chris Wetherell, a software engineer at Google, said one of the scenarios that kept him awake at night was offline access to the browser and what that meant from a security perspective, particularly on the user-to-user front."

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  1. And the winner is... by AmigaHeretic · · Score: 4, Informative

    No need to read the article people...

    Opera won!!!

    1. Re:And the winner is... by treeves · · Score: 3, Informative

      I particularly like the new Speed Dial feature in Opera 9.20.

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      ...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
  2. Re:Another Misleading Headline by Kelson · · Score: 4, Informative

    Blame the editors. I submitted a couple of links, including another article on ComputerWorld which went into the "browser war" comments in a bit more detail:

    Instead of trying to trump one another by adding features in point releases, [i.e. the classic browser war] the companies that developed these browsers are instead intent on advancing their use as platforms for a new generation of rich Internet applications and for tackling the hurdles that will come along with that shift in strategy, the panel said.

    (For the record, I found the story via Opera Watch)

  3. Re:Sure, by mikesd81 · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a trap! They'll shoot on a white flag

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    That which does not kill me only postpones the inevitable.
  4. Re:Google? by Kelson · · Score: 2, Informative

    They were there as a major developer of web applications. They've also worked closely with Mozilla (at one point they were employing several developers specifically to work on Firefox, and they might still be), and were there to talk about the future of webapps.

  5. Re:Two Words by Kelson · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've got two words for you, my friend. Virtual Machines.

    Microsoft is even offering free images for Virtual PC, preloaded with IE6 and IE7. The annoying thing is that they're time limited, expiring in August. I think they're being entirely too optimistic about the upgrade rate, especially considering all the computers that can't upgrade to IE7 for technical or policy reasons.

  6. Re:Security, sure, but let's not forget consistenc by levork · · Score: 5, Informative

    And since I couldn't figure out a way to install both on one PC I had the same problem too, until I discovered this last week: Install multiple versions of IE on your PC. Allows installation of IE 3-6 side by side with 7. Works great for me, and I can now test my web site on IE 6 and IE 7 (and 5.5, god forbid).