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Browser innovation is anything but dead

Rafe Colburn slams Marc Andreessen for his recent comments regarding browser innovation. Marc thinks browser innovation has been dead for the last five years. To make a statement like that he must have missed out on Mozilla, Firebird, Safari, Opera and all the other Gecko variants. Which leads to the worrying conclusion that he’s either still using Netscape 4 or (even worse) he browses with IE!

Posted 4th July 2003 at 9:51 pm

This is Browser innovation is anything but dead by Simon Willison, posted on 4th July 2003.

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Pretty much.
Richard - 4th July 2003 23:11 - #
Why? What have we seen that's new in the last five years? Tabbed browsing? Woo. Popup blocking? Wow, pushing the boat out! We've had lots of "niceties" (in particular, for me, mouse gestures), but real innovation? No way. Not that I've seen.
Phil Wilson - 7th July 2003 10:23 - #
To understand what he is talking about you need to focus on the real issues and the technology itself. A person who is so eager to bash Microsoft certainly will not get it. As I see it though, the browser technology didn't see much change since the DOM and CSS. Mazilla seemed to have interesting stuff, like XUL, but very few people use it and it has its own problems, not much developer support, not many tools etc...
Sergio - 29th January 2004 19:57 - #

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