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What Will the Browser Look Like In Five Years?
macslocum writes "Opera's Charles McCathieNevile examines the most significant web browser innovations of the last few years, and he looks ahead to the browser's near-term future."
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It's just your farsightedness.
I already wear sunglasses to browse the web, on account of all the flash and poor color choices.
Although this is an improvement over the 90s. Back then I wore a welding mask.
Yes, opposed to Firefox, IE, Chrome, and pretty much any other browser out there, which you have to pay for. Oh, wait....
It will look like flying through buildings made of data.
YES, YES IT WILL!
NaNanananananana I can't hear you nanananananaana
It will have no buttons or any other form of input, it'll be a window to Steve Jobs browsing the internet. This is Apple's quality control in action, you'll never see any crap sites anymore.
Yes, his comment probably would have been better stated if he had left off the footnote entirely and simply said:
It’s only been since Firefox came out that there has been any innovation in browsers that many people actually use.
That way, you both disqualify Opera and at the same time you state why it was irrelevant. Win-win.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
And the 75 Opera users will be sure to point that out ad nauseum.
"But this one goes to 11!"
Here's the worst case.
Web browsers are still around, but they're used only to look at junk sites. All commercial content is locked into "applications" for phones, tablets, and TVs. The content provider has complete control - the user can't skip ads, can't prevent the content owner from knowing what they're looking at, and can't save the content.
Bots run by the MPAA, the RIAA, News Corp., Apple, and Google constantly troll the remnants of the free web, searching for commercial content and sending out goon squads to take it down.