Comments on: Browser War Resulted in Better Web? http://tech-buzz.net/2008/05/26/browser-war-resulted-in-better-web/ Tech Tips, Mobiles, Web and Computer How-Tos Tue, 22 May 2012 10:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pallabhttp://tech-buzz.net/2008/05/26/browser-war-resulted-in-better-web/comment-page-1/#comment-140610 Pallab Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:18:15 +0000 http://tech-buzz.net/?p=2561#comment-140610 Undoubtedly browser war is vital to a better web. Just go back 10-12 years. At the time when Netscape was dominant. The web was a pain to browse with anything but Netscape, because half the sites were Netscape. The reason? Being the market leader Html didnt bother much about the very recently founded W3C and went ahead and integrated custom features. The same was happening 3-4 years back. You would see websites using IE only standards like activex and xmlhttp requests (this is now included in all major browsers). With Mozilla cutting into Ie's share web developers are now more cautious. Most of them atleast check their website in IE and Fx. So almost all sites not work in Fx. Unfortunately for Opera users like us, that doesnt always solve the problem. The situation has definitely improved for us as Mozilla's behaviour is definitely closer to Opera's than Ie's. But sometimes developers take the shortcut. Instead of making the website standards compliant, they make it ie compliant first, then they add a few hacks to make it look OK in Fx. These sites are the ones which refuse to display properly in browsers like Opera and Safari.So in conclusion, yes a competitive browser market is essential to a better web.Anyway, I should stop now as otherwise my comment would become longer than your post. Undoubtedly browser war is vital to a better web.
Just go back 10-12 years. At the time when Netscape was dominant. The web was a pain to browse with anything but Netscape, because half the sites were Netscape. The reason? Being the market leader Html didnt bother much about the very recently founded W3C and went ahead and integrated custom features.
The same was happening 3-4 years back. You would see websites using IE only standards like activex and xmlhttp requests (this is now included in all major browsers).
With Mozilla cutting into Ie’s share web developers are now more cautious. Most of them atleast check their website in IE and Fx. So almost all sites not work in Fx. Unfortunately for Opera users like us, that doesnt always solve the problem. The situation has definitely improved for us as Mozilla’s behaviour is definitely closer to Opera’s than Ie’s. But sometimes developers take the shortcut. Instead of making the website standards compliant, they make it ie compliant first, then they add a few hacks to make it look OK in Fx. These sites are the ones which refuse to display properly in browsers like Opera and Safari.

So in conclusion, yes a competitive browser market is essential to a better web.

Anyway, I should stop now as otherwise my comment would become longer than your post.

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