| Monday, July 19, 2004 |
 | Interesting tandem - Ben Hammersley, who explains the difficult stuff to me, discusses the Browser Wars Round 2 in this article. Elsewhere in same publication, there is the news that Yahoo has bought Oddpost, one of those applications within the browser that could cause problems for Microsoft. Certainly at the low end, why pay extra for a Windows OS when you can use a web service that produces the same effects as the programs bundled in? What's the value add? For example, the Blogger interface I use has a couple of shortcuts buttons that spontaneously generate basic HTML, notionally to save me the trouble of typing it in. Accustomed as I am to 10 PRINT "HELLO", I tend just to keep typing. However. Turn the window into an on-the-fly WYSIWYG view, add some functionality (tables, bullet points, pretty simple stuff), give me the option to save it onto a server where anyone who has the right password can access it, and why do I need Word? Or, indeed, a big-ass hard drive, but that's a slightly different question.
More immediately, I honestly don't understand why anyone is still using Internet Explorer. I mean, what do they gain from it? No tabbed browsing, no pop-up killer (although the Google toolbar or similar can at least help with that), and ActiveX popping up like the cheapos supervillain to which it sounds akin... it's just a whole big puddle of nasty. The only time I use IE is when I need to go to Windows Update to download an update for a massive security hole, as often as not one in IE. Is anyone seeing the problem here?
On the subject of wars, and reproduced without comment from the same source, conflict resolution lessons for parents.
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