Wired On The Current Browser War
This Wired News article reviews the status of the current browser war — IE7, Firefox, Flock, Opera etc. Here is a quick summary:
- IE continues to lose its market share, down to 90% from 97% in two years.
- Firefox’s share has steadily increased to 9 percent.
- While Opera tries hard to come out with new features, it’s share hasn’t really increased (Opera, who?)
- Flock is a new kid on the block. It’s a Web 2.0 browser. Built on the Firefox source code, its target customers are commercial companies who want to bundle technologies in a for-profit version of the Firefox browser (podcast).
I don’t think there will be an end to the browser war. The war will continue until the end of Internet (if there is a such day). I also believe that there will never be one browser for everyone. It’s a competitive market. New browsers will be developed because someone spotted a niche in the market.
I reckon, the market share of any open source which calls for user involvement would continue to mushroom. Firefox wherein a user can code add-on browser functionality is a perfect example.
Makes me remember a recently read quotation :
“Tell me, and I might forget; show me, and I might remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”
Comment by Kunal — June 23, 2006 @ 8:18 am