Why do people dislike Dolphin?

[Billie Walsh]

Art Alexion wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Steve Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org> wrote:
>   
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm not entirely sure your hypothesis is provable.  I think I could say with
>>> as much authority that Firefox and others have broken the stranglehold IE
>>> had on the browser market because they provided features (like tabs) that
>>> users wanted.
>>>       
>>    The adherence to standards also means not putting in questionable
>> extension which cause security problems.  One of the main reasons people left
>> IE in droves were concerns over security.  Were they leaving because of the
>> adherence to standards?  No.  Was the adherence to standards part and parcel
>> with good security practices?  Yes.
>>     
>
> Well, you are absolutely right.  But they didn't make that connection
> and weren't motivated by it.
>
> Also, it was  that simple.  IE was designed to be insecure by the MS
> marketing team who always chooses whiz-bang feature and integration
> over security.  It didn't just fail to adhere to standard, it flouted
> them.
>
>
>   

This sort of goes back to the "Browser War" between Microsoft and 
Netscape. Microsoft wanted to dominate in the browser market so they 
made their own "standard" and tied it to Microsoft products. When Java 
came a long Microsoft added their own "standard" and tied it to their 
own products. Still today a lot of web pages are made in Front Page 
which automatically sets up things just for IE only. Supposedly the next 
version of IE will be more Standards compliant, but I will believe it 
when I see it.

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