Comments on: browser wars: 1997 vs 2007 http://www.haibane.info/2007/06/11/browser-wars-1997-vs-2007/ a celebration of science fiction, anime, and geek culture Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:48:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Mark http://www.haibane.info/2007/06/11/browser-wars-1997-vs-2007/#comment-1000 Mark Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:52:33 +0000 http://www.haibane.info/2007/06/11/browser-wars-1997-vs-2007/#comment-1000 It's funny, Opera had tabs years before anyone else (back in the 20th century), and it never brought them gobs of users... Opera had lots of features that no one else had (mouse gestures for instance), but it's never been that popular. But as you noted they've really honed in on the embedded market and seem to be experiencing lots of success there. The new Netscape looks like a browser that's just optimized to use their lame, Digg-wannabe site. Safari really baffles me. If you're going to choose an open source base for your browser, why on earth would you choose KHTML? Ungh. It’s funny, Opera had tabs years before anyone else (back in the 20th century), and it never brought them gobs of users… Opera had lots of features that no one else had (mouse gestures for instance), but it’s never been that popular. But as you noted they’ve really honed in on the embedded market and seem to be experiencing lots of success there.

The new Netscape looks like a browser that’s just optimized to use their lame, Digg-wannabe site. Safari really baffles me. If you’re going to choose an open source base for your browser, why on earth would you choose KHTML? Ungh.

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