Mozilla @ JOIN'03

A bit of History

A bit of history...

The initial competition between Netscape and Microsoft had good and bad aspects... It started as there was almost no standards.

  1. Good because it has fostered innovation
  2. Bad because it led to web "balkanization", a world divided in two sides by incompatible markup languages.

Standards came later on, and software vendors (whether open-source or not) are now following the standards.

Who's won the browser war ?

Standards did!