Talk of new browser wars -- harkening back to the days when every other Web site urged you to go with one or another broswer -- might sound a little too much like inside tech baseball. What makes the subject so important is that the way that Microsoft and its competitors make their browser have a radical impact on how we interact with the World Wide Web:
The tiniest shift, history shows us, can signal the greatest change. News last weekend that Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) web browser had lost a single percentage point of market share might not sound all that significant today, but it could well mean the browser wars are back on. One percent is all it takes.
As someone who spends much of his Web time on a Macintosh equipped with IE 5 (still using OS9, so no chance of going with Firefly), all I can say is I hope that either Microsoft gets standard compliant real quick, or someone ports one of the new Mozilla browsers from OS X.
Posted by tgibbons at July 20, 2004 04:30 PM