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For a couple of years, there was only one browser: IE6. We've already seen what happens. MS had the dominant browser, and slacked off on improvement. Do you rea
by isleyaardvark 17y ago
For a couple of years, there was only one browser: IE6. We've already seen what happens. MS had the dominant browser, and slacked off on improvement. Do you really think life would be better for either the users or developers if we were still stuck with IE6? You can thank competition for that.
Browser makers do cooperate. They work together on web standards. Two major ones share the same open source rendering engine.
Betamax was not "better" than VHS. It was better in image quality, but it was inferior in the length of material that could be put on a single cassette. Consumers voted with their wallets, and decided length was more important than video quality.