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Re: Wow..
by wg on Tuesday 14/Sep/2004, @00:53
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Maybe Eric's post was a little harsh, but he is absolutely correct. Choice is a good thing. Competition is a good thing. We need to get away from the mentality that there can (or should) only be one product in any category. If you are a commercial software company it is in your best interest to try to kill off competing products until yours is the only one left. But, if you are a consumer/user it is in your best interest to encourage the existance of multiple competing products, even if you only use one of them. If only one product exists what will you do when you become unhappy with it?
Competition causes products to improve faster. It also keeps any one product from dictating standards or having too much control of a market. Do we really want to have one development team dictating the future of the web? That is what we have now with Microsoft and IE. Is anyone happy with the current situation we're in? I'm not.
It is good to have multiple competing browser engines. It helps keep the browser developers focused on supporting standards instead of trying to rule the world. It also keeps web designers from getting lazy and only supporting the dominant web browser.
By the way, Mozilla is my browser of choice. I only use Konqueror as a file manager and to test web pages. But I hope KHTML has a bright future. KHTML is important regardless of whether or not it is the number one browser engine or not. |
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