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Re: The nonsense of removing IE

Author:Andrew Duncan
Posted:4/30/2000; 7:28:29 AM
Topic:scriptingNews outline for 4/29/2000
Msg #:16784 (In response to 16781)
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Further, I think it's good for the Internet if it should happen, because the browsers are stagnating and are not being driven by Web developers and their applications

That could change, depending on how quickly developers take up XUL.

Netscape 6 PR1 is not ready to be used as a data-to-day browser by Joe Surfer, but it's only a matter of time before a suitable version is released.

After that, how quickly will developers take it up? Possibly quite quickly, and I can even see some developers (in intranets initially) just mandating it. Wanna use my app? Install Mozilla!

I agree that there are opportunities to "sneak features into the browser that favour their own sites", but that opportunity seems to be open to anyone building a browser -- Netscape 6 goes a fair way in that direction already, with it's XUL-driven pane on the left hand side of the window. But is there a great advantage to doing it?

I've said elsewhere that, while MS won the browser war, Netscape/Mozilla just moved the fight to the web apps field. It's now a different kind of battle, IMHO, and the measure of success changes with it.

Until the anti-trust remedies shake out, however, it's just not clear what the rules of engagement are. Only time will tell...

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