“The browser wars are over, and now Microsoft Corp., Mozilla
Corp. and other vendors plan to focus on positioning the browser as
a development platform. That was the consensus yesterday of a panel
of representatives here at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo who help
develop Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and the Google
Reader.“Instead of trying to trump one another by adding features in
point releases, the companies that developed these browsers are
instead intent on advancing their use as platforms for a new
generation of rich Internet applications and for tackling the
hurdles that will come along with that shift in strategy, the panel
said…”