On Feb 2, 10:56 pm, Bruce Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 2, 11:48 pm, "Christopher P. Boothe" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > While there is some truth in what you say, there is also no innovation
> > if people sometimes don't say, I don't like this thing, or that
> > thing. And write a new one.
>
> But to suggest everyone critical of anything needs to write a new one
> is sheer idiocy.
>
> > Internet Explorer's dominance, and years without innovation, until
> > very recently come to mind.
>
> You'll be wanting to check your timeline. IE was simple a reskinner
> mosaic, while netscape was the new shiny browser that was rewritten
> and generated a lot of new features. Of course, then they decided to
> rewrite from scratch _again_ and completely fell out of the market.
> Took years for firefox to claw its way back and a big chunk of its
> starting share was handed to it by other people.
Actually while the first two version of Netscape were innovative with
new features (wow Javascript, wow frames), after v2 it was much less
innovative and plain bad later on.
IE3 was released August 1996, was highly innovative, with an
implementation of the still incomplete CSS standard that was not bad
for the time, activex, java, and so Microsoft acquired serious market
share with this version.
Netscape 3, also released August, was fairly lean, but not all that
mean, and looks far more dated now than IE3 does.
Microsoft had their best people on IE, and IE4 was released in
September 1997, three months after Netscape 4. Netscape 4 was a
steaming pile of junk. It crashed readily, it was slow, bloated with
mail clients, the worst implementation of CSS ever (even worse than
IE3's, written before CSS had been finished).
It was so bad, Netscape decided to go all communist throw Netscape
away and go open source. That took YEARS. In the meantime IE4 had
beaten Netscape 4, with IE 5 MS didn't even have any competition, and
after that Microsoft realised they didn't even need to try, and it was
six years between IE6 and IE7.
IE3 was a small innovative browser, and IE4 buried Netscape under
features and eye candy. While Microsoft did leverage their market
position, Netscape's product was HORRIBLE.
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