> But by that logic, even though Firefox and Opera and Safari have obtained > significant pieces of the market, they are not "successful" either, because > IE is still around and prominent.
In case it wasn't obvious, the point is to "dismantle Internet Explorer" (as you put it) not to get rid of the very last copy of that damned browser, but to emasculate its insidious power to impede standardization and innovation. At what percentage point that becomes operational we don't know. But we do know that that power has already been substantially negated by the recent market share gains of FF and Safari and the emergence of WebKit on mobiles. The power has already shifted, to the extent that even if Microsoft resists, others are willing to ship plug-ins like canvas and Gears to augment IE towards parity with other browsers. Microsoft can no longer dictate its own "standards" by the sole virtue of IE's ubiquity. Chrome, in that sense, is the culmination of these vectors of change backed by a formidable adversary to MS, willing to spend whatever it takes. I'd urge you to watch this video on what Gears means for the evolution of the browser and just how far it can go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hapkRYxCU_8 If, whether through Gears or HTML5, FF, Opera and WebKit were to adopt even half of this stuff on all desktop and mobile platforms (and I don't see much to stop that), IE will have been largely dismantled. Even if it had 50% global market share at that point. -- Kontra http://counternotions.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
