Microsoft's Gazelle browser: A layperson's explanation

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Opera did tabs first

Firefox took credit for it, since Opera never managed to grow its share to where people knew about it. So Firefox are the proud holders of "second!" on that one. Firefox has been a fabulous amalgamator of great ideas into a usable form, but there actually isn't a ton of stuff that they've pioneered.

By contrast, IE pioneered a ton of stuff, including AJAX and much of the baseline support for CSS back in the day. (Of course, the parts they didn't get quite right have been the bane of web designers' existence since then, but all the parts that worked -- most of it -- were great leaps forward at the time.)

Microsoft is interested in that model because (1) they don't want Google to own the browser, and (2) they know a ton about operating systems (duh), and leveraging that effectively is a competitive advantage both for their browser and for their OS.

Posted by: wanorris   Posted on: 08/17/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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