Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: The Future
Author: David Rothgery Posted: 4/30/2000; 2:46:22 PM Topic: scriptingNews outline for 4/29/2000 Msg #: 16823 (In response to 16797) Prev/Next: 16822 / 16824
You keep wanting to argue about Microsoft's position vis a vis antitrust law. I'm not talking about the antitrust case. I'm talking about developing software, specificly appliations built around an HTML rendering engine (browser-based apps from here on).
- XUL doesn't let Windows developers do anything new, as we've been able to develop browser-based apps by dropping a WebBrowser ActiveX control in our apps since IE 3 came out.
- Not much has been done with this capability in the last few years, except Microsoft Money and the AOL Web Browser. My favorite text/HTML editor (EditPlus) uses this capability to allow previewing web pages, but that's a $30 shareware program, not a higly profitable commercial application.
- Currently, Windows has about 90% of the desktop OS market.
- Therefore, expanding the capability to easily develop browser-based apps beyond the Windows platform will have a negligible effect on the spread of browser-based apps.
There are responses to this message:
- Re: The Future, David Valentine, 4/30/2000; 3:21:12 PM
- Re: The Future, William Crim, 4/30/2000; 3:43:57 PM
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