Firefox nets estimated $30 million
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, John Bailo wrote on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:04:29 -0800
Not sure. The problem is that IE was basically given away for free, but may have enabled sales into key accounts.
IE is an interesting software enbreasty. One might construe Microsoft's browser as a bit of a "shell game"; AFAICT it's really only an HTML parser grafted onto the Wordpad document viewer. In short, the COM objects -- pardon me, ActiveX -- do the real work: viewing pictures and animations and whatnot.
JEditorPane with type text-html and view local JavaBeans -- it's a rather neat if little-used capability. However, Java prefers to construct the Images itself, AFAIK, and most Java systems use Java as a server, not as a desktop browser.
I don't know what Mozzie does in this space, as I've not studied the code extensively. I do know Mozzie has plugins but those are for nonstandard capabilities such as Flash.
Well, what seemed to work for one of the genius Windummies that hangs out here goes something like this: 1. Lie. Claim you don't need all of those tools because you're smarter...
I agree that IE needs a lot of repair, though -- and there are probably many components that need fixing. (There is also a fundamental Windows messaging design flaw, which transcends IE, as I understand it.)
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