The Battle of the Browsers – The History and the Future of Internet Browsers
With Internet Explorer 8 (Beta) now available, can Microsoft hope to retain market dominance over fierce open source rivals such as Mozilla’s Firefox or the feature packed Opera web browser. Can history give us a clue to what the future of web browsers/browsing might hold? How did Netscape Navigator go from having a dominant 89.36% market share of all web browsers in 1996 to only 3.76% by mid 1999.
Let us take a journey that will begin long before even the intellectual conception of Internet Explorer, that will glance at its long defeated rivals, examine the current browsers available and will end with a prediction of what the future of browsing will offer us - and which browser(s) will still be around to offer it. Read the rest of this entry »