Nothing's impossible

Posted Jun 19, 2002 9:25 UTC (Wed) by DeletedUser936 ((unknown), #936)
Parent article: Was Mozilla Worth The Wait? (TechWeb)

You're all acting like it's impossible for mozilla to win back marketshare.

It wasn't so impossible for IE to win marketshare from Netscape. And although plenty of that marketshare consisted of new users, almost all netscape users switched to IE. Even I used IE for a while, before I used mozilla and went to linux. Why did they switch? IE was in windows, IE was free, and IE was better.

Mozilla will never be in windows, but it's also free and it can be better. In fact, I think it's already better. That's one of the reasons why I use it. However, it's not good enough to get people to switch yet, because it wouldn't know usability if it tripped over it and fell. That'll change. Even gnome's usability is becoming great in version 2.0 they say, so anything's possible.

And the cool thing about mozilla is: it doesn't have to conquer the market to win over the market. It's only goal is to produce a standards-compliant browser and development platform, not to start a war with MS, or to make money. If it can get 15 percent of the market, it wins, because then people will have to take it into account when building websites, and nobody will be able to shove the standards aside.