> their motivation for making IE more compliant has to do with selling more of their products and perhaps had little to do with making the best product. If you

> their motivation for making IE more compliant has to do with selling more of their products and perhaps had little to do with making the best product. If you mean it, Firefox should have supported H.264. Mozilla/Opera aren't so innovating in the old days. I remember there was a HUGE ad in the toolbar area of Opera when it's still a shareware. I have to use a no-ad patch/crack. Tons of innovating features exists before Mozilla, there were lots of thirdparty IE shell browsers like MyIE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_Explorer_shells http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_Explorer_shel... They were quiet because there weren't so many buzzword or hype nor any marketing campaign backed by Google.