Well, they stagnated. And IE came and IMNSHO, ruined the web experience in the late 90s to early 00s.
I think you're glossing over a very critical stage of Netscape's ruin--introducing more and more proprietary tags and diverging from HTML standards. IE 4 was when many made the jump, and for good reason. It was a better browser and supported standards better than Netscape.
With Netscape dying/gone, MS sat on it for years and no longer tried to support standards. And that's what ruined the web experience.
There was a recent post on the IE7 development blog about the prosecution of a phisher--21 months of jail time and $57,000 returned to the folks he defrauded. It's a start at least. The IE7 dev blog has actually been doing its best to tout their anti-phishing features in IE7, though there have been a number of (IMO legitimate) concerns about how it's being implemented.
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It's now posted on Reuters and confirmed by Comedy Central, if it makes you feel any better.
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That's not a Ben Franklin quote, though its many variations are often (mis)attributed to him.
Well, they stagnated. And IE came and IMNSHO, ruined the web experience in the late 90s to early 00s.
I think you're glossing over a very critical stage of Netscape's ruin--introducing more and more proprietary tags and diverging from HTML standards. IE 4 was when many made the jump, and for good reason. It was a better browser and supported standards better than Netscape.
With Netscape dying/gone, MS sat on it for years and no longer tried to support standards. And that's what ruined the web experience.
There was a recent post on the IE7 development blog about the prosecution of a phisher--21 months of jail time and $57,000 returned to the folks he defrauded. It's a start at least. The IE7 dev blog has actually been doing its best to tout their anti-phishing features in IE7, though there have been a number of (IMO legitimate) concerns about how it's being implemented.
It's now posted on Reuters and confirmed by Comedy Central, if it makes you feel any better.
Now we can look forward to authentic Da Vinci-voiced endorsements for vacuum cleaners. Ah, what a glorious age in which we live.