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IE has "won" something? (none / 0) (#4)
by John Q Public on Sat Dec 03, 2005 at 11:37:12 AM PDT

I take exception to the statement that IE has "won" the "browser wars". They have won nothing but a few battles, and they have done that not by besting their opponents, but merely by fiat. Their browser is already installed on most end-user machines; people have tended to use what is already there, no matter how bad it may be. I -- and many others now -- use Firefox almost exclusively. (Except when developing for the Web, because after all, one must acknowledge the existing user base.) Even then, I find it tedious because it does not display page elements in a standard and consistent manner, among other things. When the status quo becomes bad enough, people WILL abandon the status quo, en masse. Apparently, IE is not quite bad enough -- yet -- in comparison to the others. In regard to the average end user, of course.


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