Re: Need advice on reliable way to identifyIE asthe browser

The browser wars were over when AOL bought Netscape. AOL bought netscape for
netscape.com.

I don't think anyone is pining for the good ol' days of Netscape
Communicator. Competition made Netscape a better browser while MS was
closing off competition from itself. They intentionally created created
unconsistencies and used their desktop and office monopoly to push those
inconsistencies across their exclusivity deals with OEM vendors, AOL and
Apple.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Haas, Matt (CL Tech Sv) <
matt.haas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Netscape itself had much to do with their loss of market share. Do you
remember the disaster that every release of version 4 was? The initial
releases (which you had to pay for) were incredibly unstable and every time
something was fixed, something else broke. In the mean time, IE 4 was very
stable and had good (for its day) CSS support. AOL buying Netscape pretty
much finished killing Navigator off since a lot of the developers left at
that time and by the time Navigator 6 came out, nobody cared.

Matt

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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Need advice on reliable way to identifyIE asthe
browser

From: Maurice O'Prey
Some of we poor souls (about 80% of us) choose to use IE.

I'm not sure that "choice" is the appropriate noun. I still recall ISP's
offering Netscape and IE options when people signed up for their service,
and I think Netscape had something like 80% of the market share, back then.
Then Microsoft embedded IE in Windows... And it's not like you can even
uninstall it, or separate it out from Windows updates. And since Microsoft
essentially rebuffed the government's attempt to intervene on behalf of
consumer choice, I think a little bit of grass-roots missionary work is in
order.

Nathan.



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