Story: Browser battle becomes guerilla war

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What a biased article. It plainly ignores the fact that there are clear reasons why other browsers exist (although it touches on it) other than as some childish attempt to compete with IE. Primarily, people deserve choice, which is a good enough reason for alternatives. Secondly, I doubt the existence of IE is of much use to users of operating systems outside of Windows and MacOS, for which ports simply don't exist. Also, as IE is proprietary software, it would be discarded by Free software advocates, such as myself. IE itself is a joke; it has simply stagnated over the last three and a half years (last release was late 2001 with NT 5.1 ARAIK - obviously barring numerous patches), and will soon cease to exist as any kind of separate entity outside the Windows platform. Also, its poor standard compliance causes serious problems for web designers. Not only does it not correctly support what standards it claims to, its age also prevents it from supporting any recent standards (CSS 2, soon 3, and XHTML 1.2 at some point in the future). But, did I expect anything else from an article, a quarter of which contains a MS Office advertisement???

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