Re-Thinking the Browser
Everyone thought the browser wars were over when Netscape went the veritable way of the dodo and Internet Explorer, contentiously embedded in the ubiquitous Microsoft OS, became the defacto winner. But it seems peacetime celebrations were premature and the past years have seen a plethora of browsers spring up eager to steal some of IE's share by capitalizing on IE's numerous short-comings and inadequacies.
Firefox obviously has made the most impact with an open-source fast, efficient browser packed with very functional features (many of which IE took a couple years to finally copy). Also worthy of mention is Safari from the Mac platform which is now cross-platform and offers a robust toolset. And then there's the never-say-die Opera which still has a wide user-base.
Rather than a simple repeat of the browser war we now have a real and viable landscape of browser options. It is into this market that we now have a new player - Flock - but one not just content with status quo of casual browsing but rather conceptually a different tact that seeks to embrace the computer and the Internet as a personal, multi-platform, publishing system.
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Posted at 01:00AM Oct 19, 2007
by Mike Jones in moving image theory |
