Through a trackback on the post below, I discovered a couple of pretty interesting articles on Firfox by a fellow named Patrick Jarret. They're linked to from his current post, Even More Firefox, in his weblog, Ronincyberpunk.com.
My favorite two lines are, "I'm predicting the most outrageous and most historic battle in the history of the Browser Wars. This is the stuff legends are made of," and "This is how Firefox has to win the war. It has to be the best. And it’s supporters have to be loud and proud."
I couldn't agree more with both of those statements :-) Head over and give both aritcles a read. There's good stuff there.
Posted by asa at March 1, 2005 10:11 PMDefine winning the browser war?
Achieving 10% whilst your enemy is swimming in quicksand before being thrown a rope by a management team cattle prodded into a rescue mission by a savvy upstart?
Being the best and being arrogant is not enough. Timing is as important as anything and the window of opportunity for Fx is not infinite.
The Fx community must wake up now and climb through the window of opportunity that exists now before that window is inevitably closed, bolted and barred for good.
Feature-poor point releases scheduled at a crawling rate when resources are greater than ever (Google deal) is not an approach that can be considered taking advantage of a short but sweet window of opportunity.
Posted by: pd on March 2, 2005 07:23 AM