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They're are at least two different lenses looking at "the internet" ITT. I don't see how Mozilla could have shifted the needle on the rise of big web propertie
by psd1 2y ago
They're are at least two different lenses looking at "the internet" ITT.
I don't see how Mozilla could have shifted the needle on the rise of big web properties. In fact, I want a browser to be completely agnostic, so if Mozilla had, e.g., prevented the rise of Facebook, then I'd probably conclude that they were anti-open.
What I do want is web standards. IE built its moat, partly, by breaking standards. To be charitable, perhaps standards were moving too slowly.
The sane thing is ming again with chrome. Now, by my choice not to use a chrome engine, i have patches of nonfunctionality. I feel like we've been trojan'd.
- frenchy 2y agoStandards are great, in theory, but a standards group can easily be co-opted by throwing enough people and money at it. That's basically what happened with DRM.
- mmooss 2y ago> a standards group can easily be co-opted by throwing enough people and money at it. The word 'easily' does a lot of work there. How easy? Many standards work well. The Internet, an incredibly successful engineering project, is built on standards.