Digit: Why Mozilla Matters

“The browser is dead. It’s gone to meet its maker, shuffled off
its mortal coil, and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible.
Macromedia knows this. Microsoft knows this. The makers of
countless variations on the theme of the next-generation rich
Internet client know this.

“Everyone knows this except the people who build and deploy
Internet apps. We surveyed them recently, and they told us
last-century Web apps are not only alive and kicking, but dominant.
Is that nostalgia, or a leading indicator? Both, I suspect.

“The pros and cons of the browser’s always-connected
page-refresh model are understood. Zero-footprint, cross-platform
ubiquity is the upside; a clumsy UI tied to a Net umbilical cord is
the downside…”

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