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I think that Microsoft stagnated for the same reason that Netscape did: Their codebase was not flexible enough to implement new features well. It's a big decis
by forgotmypw 9y ago
I think that Microsoft stagnated for the same reason that Netscape did: Their codebase was not flexible enough to implement new features well.
It's a big decision to pull the plug on a codebase of that size, so browser developers tend to resist doing it until stagnation happens.
It happened with Netscape, it happened with MSIE, it happened with Opera, it happened with Firefox, can you guess who's next in line?
- paulddraper 9y agoSafari? I honestly don't know.
- sebazzz 9y agoI think he is referring to Chrome.
- hsivonen 9y agoThe plug was pulled on Presto and on Mariner (except for NSPR, SpiderMonkey and NSS parts). The plug was not pulled on the IE and Firefox code bases. In both cases, the plug was pulled on legacy extensions permitting major changes, but neither Edge nor Quantum are new code bases. (WebKit deprecated on Mac and obsoleted on Linux its first embedding API and replaced it with thr WebKit2 API.)