[Wsuug] A browser war is coming

[Jason Wilson]

What I would really like to see is all players coming together to  
build a common standards based engine. The next question I suppose  
would be what happens to competition. The simple answer is  
competitors would have to build a good browser. Think along the lines  
of automotive development, they all use IC engines, and there isn't  
much if any difference in the engines, the companies compete with the  
packaging.
I'm sure there are problems with that approach but it'd make things  
much simpler all around and seems to be a natural direction to me.

On 23 Dec 2007, at 14:08, Andrew Jaswa wrote:

> While I think that the extensions and plug-ins for FF are used quite a
> bit, I've found myself using the developer ones less and less.  I've
> gotten so used to having mouse gestures and I don't think I could use
> a browser that doesn't have that functionality.
>
> But on the topic of where the industry is headed. We're headed in the
> direction of web standards. MS knows this and are trying to win the
> hearts of developers.  They've built a decent browser with IE7,
> they've made some decent tools (al la Expression Web) and they are
> making (or so it seems) a acid2 compliant browser.  Just being acid2
> don't mean the browser is good but it does mean that the browser
> makers care a little bit about the industry. So I say its a good
> thing. And I would suggest to anyone that if you have a choice over a
> acid2 browser and a non-acid2 browser go with the one that can render
> the smile.
>
> As far as suggesting a browser to use... use what ever you like. I've
> been asking people to upgrade from IE6 to IE7 as soon as I knew IE7
> handled CSS better. As a developer I want more people to use browsers
> that I don't have to write CSS hacks for. As a fan of OS I want people
> to use FF.
>
>
> Andrew
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