Gerald Bauer
2005-01-26 02:10:31 UTC
Hello,
Allow me to highlight the upcoming frontpage story of the February
Wired Magazine titled "The Firefox Explosion".
Josh McHugh writes:
But Firefox doesn't have to overtake IE to cause havoc in Redmond.
Microsoft had essentially given up on Internet Explorer development -
focusing instead on its next-gen OS, Longhorn. With Longhorn, the
company hopes to make the stand-alone browser obsolete by
incorporating Web browsing into the desktop. As part of the
transition, Microsoft has created the developer language XAML, an heir
to HTML. Until a few months ago, it looked like the shift to Longhorn
would give Microsoft control of the Web's de facto standards. Now,
with Microsoft's share in the browser market slipping - IE has lost 5
percent in the past six months, almost all of it to Firefox - Web
designers can't afford to ignore the standards of Tim Berners-Lee's
W3C, which Mozilla has hewed to but which Microsoft has regarded as
strictly optional. Which means Bill Gates' troops must now turn back
to IE and battle the ghost of Netscape.
Full story @ http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/firefox.html
What's your take? Do you agree with Josh that Microsoft has given up
on HTML and Internet Explorer and wants to replace the Web's de facto
standards with its WinFx XAML offering?
- Gerald
_________________________________________
United XAML | http://unitedxaml.org
XAML Forum & News | http://xamlnews.com
Allow me to highlight the upcoming frontpage story of the February
Wired Magazine titled "The Firefox Explosion".
Josh McHugh writes:
But Firefox doesn't have to overtake IE to cause havoc in Redmond.
Microsoft had essentially given up on Internet Explorer development -
focusing instead on its next-gen OS, Longhorn. With Longhorn, the
company hopes to make the stand-alone browser obsolete by
incorporating Web browsing into the desktop. As part of the
transition, Microsoft has created the developer language XAML, an heir
to HTML. Until a few months ago, it looked like the shift to Longhorn
would give Microsoft control of the Web's de facto standards. Now,
with Microsoft's share in the browser market slipping - IE has lost 5
percent in the past six months, almost all of it to Firefox - Web
designers can't afford to ignore the standards of Tim Berners-Lee's
W3C, which Mozilla has hewed to but which Microsoft has regarded as
strictly optional. Which means Bill Gates' troops must now turn back
to IE and battle the ghost of Netscape.
Full story @ http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/firefox.html
What's your take? Do you agree with Josh that Microsoft has given up
on HTML and Internet Explorer and wants to replace the Web's de facto
standards with its WinFx XAML offering?
- Gerald
_________________________________________
United XAML | http://unitedxaml.org
XAML Forum & News | http://xamlnews.com