Stop To The Thog
Today, the human experience of the Net stands at a crossroads, paths diverging into the future, and nobody knows which one we?ll be on in a year. A lot of people who will read this have the chance to make a difference in the decision. Let?s look at the options.Stop The Thog
Evidence To start, some selections from the newsflow:
Item: Mozilla has a foundation, with a couple million in the bank, a few smart people on payroll, and a ton of volunteer energy.
Item: There won?t be an Internet Explorer 7; if you want a better browser, you?ll have to pay for the next release of Windows, which is scheduled for release in 2005, and most corporate desktops won?t get there for a couple of years after that.
Item: I gave the opening keynote Tuesday at the Second Annual SVG Open conference. For those of you who haven?t got down with SVG, let me tell you it?s some drop-dead cool technology, and it neatly fills several huge holes in the on-screen ecosystem. It?s tearing up the markets where people live and work in graphic applications: math, cartography, and so on. But information workers won?t get a chance at it, because it ain?t in IE, and it ain?t going in any time soon (see above).
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