Re: Need advice on reliable way to identifyIE asthe browser

["Alfredo Delgado" <adelgado@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:08 AM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> 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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