MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 4/2/2010 23:45, Rufus told the world:
In that between Mozilla, Fire Fox, Goggle Chrome, Camino, Safari, et.
al. there are SO many things that look the same and/or function the
same. Which leads to the thought that many of these people are
obviously cooperating and collaborating.
My previous assumption was that only the Google and Apple teams were
"paid professionals" and that the SM team are all "volunteer
professionals" or "amateurs"...but if all pf these people are all
working together and following each other around...what's the big diff
between one set and the other then?
One reason you might see similarities between browsers is that they are
products designed to do essentially the same thing and, frankly, people
steal ideas back and forth all the time.
Another reason is that, with IE's stranglehold on the browser market
until a few years ago, none of the other players had the critical mass
to introduce new standards. So they learned to collaborate heavily in
standards. Even now, Microsoft is *still* bigger than all of them
combined. So they keep collaborating. The big split for a webdesigner
nowadays is IE/Non-IE, because all the other browsers pay a lot of
attention to standards compliance -- and therefore render similarly in
most cases. That is, unless you are doing something very fancy and
cutting-edge, a page that renders well in Firefox should render fairly
well in Chrome, Safari and Opera too -- but might break horribly in IE.
Funny that in these days of non-disclosure, intellectual property, and
copyright, that such could go on...but what else could they do, I
suppose? Particularly if they all want to establish and agree on some
standards.
And a third reason is that when Apple decided to create their own
browsers, they hired people who previously worked on Mozilla -- being a
volunteer project, there was a lot of expertise around not tied by
contracts. Similarly, Google hired a number of Mozilla developers to
work in Chrome. Some ex-Mozilla developers also found their way into
Opera and even Microsoft.
Thanks. That's all great summary. Very informative.
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- Rufus
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