Browser Wars v.2004: Part 2

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Browser Wars v.2004: Part 1

Browser Wars v.2004: Part 1 06/17/2004 06:38 AM
As the World Wide Web evolves, it seems as if a war is raging between the biggest players - the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), other browser manufacturers and Microsoft. And the developers? They're caught in the middle. By Lee Underwood. 0617

Year in review: Browser wars, part 2

Year in review: Browser wars, part 2 01/01/2005 08:16 AM
Left for dead on browser battlefield, Firefox lived to fight Microsoft, while AOL prepped two new browsers.

Browser Wars 2004

Browser Wars 2004 07/11/2004 02:11 AM
Slashdot Jul 11 2004 6:13AM GMT

Browser Wars 2004: The Industry Makes An
End Run Around Internet Explorer

Browser Wars 2004: The Industry Makes An
End Run Around Internet Explorer 07/23/2004 06:25 AM
Browser Wars 2004: The Industry Makes An End Run Around Internet Explorer
http://homepage.mac.com/ jhobbs/essays/

A wild and speculative essay by J. Hobbs on July 10th, 2004

Hey kids! Remember web-browser plug-ins? They're back:

http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=1856

Web browser makers Apple, Opera and Mozilla are collaborating on an expanded plug-in specification that allows for more powerful Web-based scripting - just as security concerns have finally convinced Microsoft to step back from its own scripting system, ActiveX. The companies have signed up plug-in makers Adobe, Macromedia and Sun to back an expanded version of the Netscape Plugin Application Program Interface (NPAPI), a plug-in model used by most non-Microsoft browsers. The updated API will create a standardised way of increasing interactivity between browsers and plug-ins, which will be built into Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox and the Opera browser.

Browser Wars : Wells Fargo Bans Opera
Browser

Browser Wars : Wells Fargo Bans Opera
Browser 02/05/2005 09:42 PM
As of 8am today - Wells Fargo (one of the largest Banks in the United States) began blocking Opera browser from it's online banking.

Have the browser wars been reignited?

Have the browser wars been reignited? 09/24/2004 04:13 PM

Are The Browser Wars Back?

Are The Browser Wars Back? 07/01/2004 03:53 AM
How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer. By Paul Boutin, Slate (via MyAppleMenu)

The Browser Wars Reignite

The Browser Wars Reignite 05/31/2004 12:35 PM

Nigel McFarlane reports on the new web browser war (via Slashdot).

Browser Wars Mark II

Browser Wars Mark II 05/31/2004 08:31 AM

IE Continues to Gain in Browser Wars

IE Continues to Gain in Browser Wars 12/16/2002 11:12 AM
Metrics show that Internet Explorer, already the dominant player by far, continues to gain share in the browser wars. But the numbers may not be all that accurate.

Browser Wars : Opera "Borks" MSN

Browser Wars : Opera "Borks" MSN 02/14/2003 07:42 PM
Opera Software has previously accused MSN of manipulating it's code to give Opera users a degraded experience. Opera has released a version of it's new browser that turns MSN properties into gibberish.

Browser Wars : Mozilla vs Opera

Browser Wars : Mozilla vs Opera 10/21/2002 11:26 AM
It's clear that the webmaster community is looking for something beyond IE as their personal browser choice.

Can Firefox outfox IE in browser wars?

Can Firefox outfox IE in browser wars? 03/14/2005 04:30 PM
Microsoft's security problems have left an opening for upstarts like Firefox and could lead to other products taking market share from the software giant, say experts at Wharton.

Browser wars: back from the dead!

Browser wars: back from the dead! 03/19/2005 02:30 AM
Since there's yet another round of speculation about Google's plans to transform the universe by developing its own sorta-kinda operating system, I think it's time for a little game of connect-the-dots.

OK, we know all about Google's expanding universe of Web applications that now go way beyond Web search, what with Gmail, the Google Desktop Search, and the latest product to turn the geek smile, the new Google Maps.

Thanks to the patient explication of Jesse James Garrett, we now have a name for the bundle of technologies that make this generation of Web-based applications feel more usable than their predecessors: "Ajax," an acronym referring to "Asynchronous Javascript + XML." All you really need to know is that this stuff makes it possible for Google (as well as a few other innovators) to design Web services where stuff happens very fast on your screen without your having to wait for the browser to send a request back all the way across the Internet to a server, and for that server to send some bits back to you. With Ajax, this all happens via services that are already built into your browser, rather than insisting that you wait while Java takes its long march into your browser window -- or that you open your computer up to the myriad vulnerabilities created by Microsoft's approach to building Web applications.

So Ajax is cool, and all eyes are on it. Meanwhile, Microsoft, prodded by the success of Firefox, has woken from its slumber and announced that it will update Internet Explorer as soon as this summer. We can be reasonably certain that the new IE will provide its users with some of the key improvements that Firefox users now enjoy, like tabbed browsing, which Opera users like me have had for, like, ever. (Opera even automatically saves and restores your tabbed window sets -- God, it's good! But with the right set of plugins you can pretty well match it with Firefox, and for free.)

Opera's CTO, Hakon Lie, along with a group called the Web Standards Project, has issued a challenge to Microsoft. Microsoft, under the slogan "embrace and extend," has a history of adopting previously extant standards and then twisting them just enough to make everyone's lives miserable. To this day, Web designers often have to build two versions of sites, one to serve to IE and one to serve to everyone else -- or they have to make compromises in how a site is served to make sure its pages don't break on these incompatible browsers.

Microsoft developers say this time they intend to do better. Lie and the Web Standards Project plan an "acid test" to see just how well the new IE handles some of the subtleties of newer versions of standards like CSS (the "cascading style sheets" that give designers fine-grained control over a Web page's layout).

It seems to me there's another acid test anyone can perform: When the new IE is out and gets automatically distributed across the Net (to the millions of Microsoft users who now have automatic updates turned on so they don't get zonked by some viral crud), all you'll have to do is fire it up and visit your nearest Ajax-powered site. If Gmail works, great. But if the new Microsoft browser, in order to deliver some new benefit or other, turns out to break the Ajax armatures that hold the new Web applications together, then we'll know that the company is up to its old tricks again.

Microsoft begins to care about the
browser wars, again

Microsoft begins to care about the
browser wars, again 06/22/2004 10:22 PM
Since the advent of IE 6, Microsoft has lost focus on Internet Explorer. Having captured a dominant market share in the browser wars, the company slowed updates and has been sagging in terms of providing the features that make competing browsers cool.

Dynamically Typed: Browser Wars,
Reloaded

Dynamically Typed: Browser Wars,
Reloaded 06/02/2004 08:38 AM
Think the browser wars are a thing of the past? Well, Harry Fuecks doesn't. According to his new posting on Dynamically Typed, he thinks that things have just taken a different fork in the road:

Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser
Wars Reignite

Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser
Wars Reignite 06/01/2004 02:27 AM
Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser Wars Reignite .. Nigel McFarlane's article at InformIT

informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=174156
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"Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser
Wars Reignite"

"Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser
Wars Reignite" 06/02/2004 08:54 AM

Star Wars On TV, Part 1

Star Wars On TV, Part 1 09/12/2004 02:09 PM
Just a reminder that A&E will premiere the Star Wars special Empire of Dreams this Sunday night at 8:00 pm. The two-hour special presentation will take a look at how the Star Wars films have influenced fans, as well as the movie industry. An extended version of this feature will also be included with the upcoming DVD set, with an additional 45 minutes of footage. Click here for an advanced look at the show.

Star Wars On TV, Part 2

Star Wars On TV, Part 2 09/12/2004 02:09 PM
"When Star Wars Ruled the World" will premiere on VH1 next weekend at 10pm, chronicling the making of the classic trilogy. Complete with interviews from a large list of Star Wars cast, creators and fans, this hour-long documentary will take viewers back to the days when whole world wanted to wield a lightsaber (Like they don't now?) Click here for more on the show, and click here for several sneek peak videos from the show.

Microsofts Slate Magazine, Recommends
FireFox : Browser Wars Heating Up Again

Microsofts Slate Magazine, Recommends
FireFox : Browser Wars Heating Up Again 07/12/2004 09:11 AM
In one of the more bizarre footnotes of the Browser wars comes this delicious entry dripping with irony from Microsoft's Slate Magazine: " it was enough to make me ditch Explorer in favor of the much less vulnerable Firefox browser"

Open Office Wars, part 4

Open Office Wars, part 4 11/18/2003 12:51 PM

Dare Obasanjo: The biggest gripe when Office 2003's XML support was announced was that the schemas for WordprocessingML (aka WordML) and co. were proprietary. This was reported in a number of fora including Slashdot and C|Net news. I wonder how many will carry the announcements that these schemas are available for all to peruse and reuse in a royalty free manner?

Did I link to one of these?  Yup.  OK, so I will link link to the announcement.  Done.

Note: in my blog entry I didn't "gripe" about the schemas for WordML, my question related to PowerPoint11.

Open Office Wars, Part 6

Open Office Wars, Part 6 06/05/2005 11:46 PM
Brian Jones: New default XML formats in the next version of Office [via Dare Obasanjo] Fresh on the heels of the OpenOffice standard announcement comes this welcome news. ...

Open Office Wars, Part 7

Open Office Wars, Part 7 06/22/2005 01:55 AM
The saga continues ...

BYOB: Build Your Own Browser, Part 2

BYOB: Build Your Own Browser, Part 2 05/30/2004 11:42 PM
The wait is over and the second installment of "Build Your Own Browser" (BYOB) is finally here. The first installment focused on using Interface Builder to build a simple browser without using any code. The browser was functional but lacked many of the features that are available in modern web browsers. The next two installments will make our browser more powerful by using some of the more advanced aspects of WebKit...

BYOB: Build Your Own Browser, Part 3

BYOB: Build Your Own Browser, Part 3 06/05/2004 01:17 AM
By Andrew Anderson, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

Are the Browser Wars Back? - How
Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet
Explorer. By Paul Boutin

Are the Browser Wars Back? - How
Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet
Explorer. By Paul Boutin 07/01/2004 03:42 AM
this Slate article that recommends Firefox .. welcomes back the browser wars

slate.msn.com/id/2103152
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eBay Today: How To Search For Star
Wars Collectibles Part 1 Of 2

eBay Today: How To Search For Star
Wars Collectibles Part 1 Of 2 12/31/2003 02:40 AM
New Year's resolution #1: Start using eBay to get cool stuff for your Star Wars collection. Click through to learn some tips on how to successfully search for Star Wars collectibles using several search tools on eBay.

eBay Today: How To Search For Star
Wars Collectibles Part 2 Of 2

eBay Today: How To Search For Star
Wars Collectibles Part 2 Of 2 01/01/2004 01:03 AM
New Year's resolution #2: Really find those missing pieces to your collection by narrowing your search, finding good deals, and being aware of pit falls on eBay.

"Jason Salavon - The Grand Unification
Theory (Part One: Every Second of Star
Wars)"

"Jason Salavon - The Grand Unification
Theory (Part One: Every Second of Star
Wars)" 09/22/2004 08:24 AM

Jason Salavon - The Grand Unification
Theory (Part One: Every Second of Star
Wars)

Jason Salavon - The Grand Unification
Theory (Part One: Every Second of Star
Wars) 09/21/2004 09:10 PM
Jason Salavon - The Grand Unification Theory (Part One: Every Second of Star Wars)

salavon.com/GUT/GUT_StarWars.shtml
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Browser Support 2004

Browser Support 2004 02/10/2004 02:45 AM
thecounter.com's stats live again. Not to be used as a final word, but as good an indication as you'll find of the global climate, their stats are aggregated from a widely distributed hit counter script, and presumably sample a broad...

"Star Wars Trilogy - 2004 DVD Changes"

"Star Wars Trilogy - 2004 DVD Changes" 09/12/2004 08:58 AM

Early 2004 Browser Market

Early 2004 Browser Market 04/30/2004 07:19 PM
Previously I’ve posted graphs of the market shares among the browsers visiting ongoing, but I’ll skip the graphics this time because there’s no discernible movement. So far in 2004, the averages are 53% IE, 32% Mozilla family, 12.5% Safari, 2% Opera, they move up and down around that but not in any persistent direction. Go figure.

OmniWeb 5.0: The Powerful Web Browser
(16-Aug-2004; 13.2K)

OmniWeb 5.0: The Powerful Web Browser
(16-Aug-2004; 13.2K) 08/16/2004 08:01 PM

Patterico's Pontifications: Patterico's
Los Angeles Dog Trainer Year in Review
2004 -- Part One: The 2004 Presidential
Election

Patterico's Pontifications: Patterico's
Los Angeles Dog Trainer Year in Review
2004 -- Part One: The 2004 Presidential
Election 12/31/2004 05:09 PM
Patterico's Pontifications: Patterico's Los Angeles Dog Trainer Year in Review 2004 -- Part One: The 2004 Presidential Election

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ENN Year in Review 2004: Virus Wars

ENN Year in Review 2004: Virus Wars 01/06/2005 03:14 PM

Star Wars Weekends 2004 Collectibles

Star Wars Weekends 2004 Collectibles 04/30/2004 05:45 PM
Celebrity guests and Force-filled fun are heading to Disney World next month, and there's a ton of new items to pick up during the event. Check out all the cool stuff you will be able to get at next month's Star Wars Weekends by clicking on the thumbnail above.

MacDevCenter.com: BYOB: Build Your Own
Browser [Jan. 23, 2004]

MacDevCenter.com: BYOB: Build Your Own
Browser [Jan. 23, 2004] 01/25/2004 05:42 AM
BYOB: Build Your Own Browser

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