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I can't resist: I'm hoping mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org/) will resurrect the
browser: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mozilla/index.html?CMP=IL7015 - "let a
thousand browsers bloom". All with the aid of XUL - a synthesis of HTML + XML +
CSS + RDF and a sprinking of DTDs. I suspect no serious developer would be
caught dead using it...but maybe this semi-illicitness is it's lure...
Maybe the re-write was worth it?
At 17/10/2002 15:42:47, Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> wrote:
# AndrewWatt2000@aol.com wrote:
# > ...
# > Ironically, by making HTML browsers free Microsoft killed browser
innovation
# > for a significant period.
#
# Netscape sent browser innovation into a coma by deciding to rewrite from
# scratch. Microsoft can no more kill browser innovation then they can all
# operating system innovation or web server innovation. Only the people
# developing browsers can decide to slow their pace of innovation.
#
# > ... In fact, with Microsoft's revenue situation it may
# > already be stifling innovation at MS too.
#
# Microsoft has a "revenue situation"?
#
# http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=microsoft+revenue
#
# Microsoft is doing great. Most companies would kill for tis "revenue
# situation". Open source is a strategic threat but has had no real effect
# on revenue.
#
# I think that they are reporting their numbers today so perhaps I will
# look foolish by the end of the day but right now I have no idea what you
# are talking about.
#
# > The lead weight of existing HTML pages provides an inertia to innovation
that
# > wasn't present, say, 10 years ago.
#
# The availability of HTML tools and techniques provides a *platform* for
# innovation.
#
# Paul Prescod
#
#
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