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Re: The nonsense of removing IE

Author:David Rothgery
Posted:4/30/2000; 10:11:23 AM
Topic:scriptingNews outline for 4/29/2000
Msg #:16792 (In response to 16789)
Prev/Next:16791 / 16793

To put things kind of bluntly, so what?

The technology that makes building an IE-based custom browser easy runs on the same operating systems (Win9x, WinNT, Win2K) that, according to most surveys, about 90% of web users are using right now.

A Mozilla/XUL based custom browser might reach 98% of users instead of 90%. But when you consider that since IE3.0 first made custom browsers easy to build, very few companies have picked up the custom-browser-on-Windows ball and run with it, I just can't see how a small increase in the base of potential users will change things.

If an approach isn't popular on Windows, then the same approach delivered in a cross-platform way will likely still be unpopular.

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