Prelude To Innovations in Motion

So, the next version of Microsoft Windows is at least 2 years away (if not three) , and that means the next major version of Internet Explorer is equally as far off. Right now, IE is the most popular browser (not by choice) and has some ohkay CSS support. There is a much better browser out there that could be used on Windows: Firefox. This is a web browser based on Mozilla, which is what Netscape is based on, and it has some great features ( tabbed browsing and large number of plug-ins) and good CSS support. So, right now, most people are using a browser that gives basic CSS support, but lacks some great parts of CSS.

Now, there are two years here where there is a chance for a more standards-compliant browser to come in and save web standards from Internet Explorer coming in two years later with shaky support: "dudes, I have been out of the country for a little bit, and I was the most popular guy before, and I know what is the best thing to do, but , from now on we are only going to dance the Macarena."

What would be the best solution would be a Google browser based on Mozilla or KHTML (which is what Safari is based on [the best browser out there now, CSS support wise]). Now, if Google were to come out with a browser, it would become instantly great and popular, and it would support web standards and it would create a happy ending. See, the problem is now, that many people think that Internet Explorer is the only thing out there, or that other browsers have things that nobody needs. THE TRUTH IS, Internet Explorer is an ohkay start, but (as Sual can tell you) once someone knows about Mozilla or Firefox, they stick with that because it is a superior browser with less awareness.

Web Standards are great and make web page development very much easier because the developer only has to create one page and it looks right on all browsers. Yet, if Internet Explorer continues to slightly suck, web standards will suffer. Therefore, there are two hopes : IE becomes incredibly standards compliant OR Google comes out with their own browser based on some Open-Source Code that everyone will love because Google is popular and NICE :) .