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Browser Wars Declared Over?
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."
The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion
The Ass and the Fox, having entered into partnership together for their mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt. They had not proceeded far when they met a Lion. The Fox, seeing imminent danger, approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him the capture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not to harm the Fox. Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured, the Fox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it. The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutched the Fox, and attacked the Ass at his leisure.
MORAL: Never trust your enemy.
Appropriate parameter assignments for ass, fox, and lion are left as an exercise for the reader.
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and nobody came?
All we are saying, is give HTML 5.0 a chance!
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The objective never was to make firefox or opera the next king of the web, but to have competition in the browser market. By having serious and various competitors in various platforms, we need standards in order to make web pages equal independent of your preferred client.
Right now I can't remember the last time I saw a "best viewed in IE X.0" warning, and that should be an indicator that people know there's a diversity of clients in the market, and making you site exclusive to a particular browser, instead of compiling with standards everyone can implement, means greatly limiting your customer base.
This is good news for Firefox. So long as Microsoft thinks it has "won" the browser war, the steady erosion of IE's market share will happen by hook or by crook. That is, viral petri dishes like Active X will be slowly become phased out, and it will be increasingly difficult for MS to differentiate their browser from other free ones.
Dog is my co-pilot.
So, while I'm glad the developers see security as being a high priority, I hope all of the browser developers do not forget about standards compliance.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
That is one of the biggest problems. Especially from the point of view of a web developer. I spend countless hours trying to work out differences between web developers. However, the biggest problem isn't the differences, it's the inability to debug the problem. The Web developer tools in FireFox, including Edit HTML and Edit CSS, make fixing these problems a breeze. Doing the same thing in any browser is a nightmare. Although some tools are available in other browsers, they aren't as good and complete as what's available in Firefox. I think that more companies, MS Especially, because of their large market share should look at their web browsers from an application platform standpoint, ant try to do what they can to improve the usability for those designing the web sites, instead of focusing on the person browsing the web.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
I don't quite know what those words mean, but I can guess about what really keeps him up at night: How can we let users access their data when their connection goes offline, and still get to keep all their data on our servers to use for advertising? A close second: How can we send ads to our users when they're disconnected from the web?
Microsoft doesn't think it has won the browser war, it knows it lost and gave up years ago.
For Microsoft, winning the war meant ensuring that the most viewed and essential web sites only worked in Windows, or worked significantly better in Windows than other operating systems. In other words, it mean crippling the web for non-Windows platforms. And for a brief period in the late 90s and early 00s this was exactly the case.
Prior to, say, 2002 or 2003, there was a real penalty for not using IE in Windows. But that hasn't been the case for years. In fact, many web sites now work better in Firefox than in IE.
Interoperability won, and Microsoft lost. What's odd is that (apparently) so many people still don't recognize that fact.
The goal of IE development in 1997 was to become the web web browser that mattered. The goal of IE in 2007 is to make sure the built-in Windows web browser doesn't suck.
ENDUT! HOCH HECH!