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Friday, June 06, 2003
NetCaptor's Perspective on IE Developments
Adam Stiles, the developer behind the uber-cool IE-based NetCaptor browser, has posted some interesting thoughts about whether or not IE is dead as a standalone browser. First off, he says IE is not dead.
He also points out that IE is a first-generation browser, and that second-generation browsers are defined by tab functionality that encapsulates all browser windows into one master window, making it much easier to navigate a crowded taskbar in Windows. Other second-gen browsers like Opera and Safari have tabs, and IE cannot add tabs due to limitations to the Windows OS shell; and thus, Stiles surmises, that's why we might not see a new version of IE until Longhorn -- the next Windows OS -- debuts sometime in 2005. Makes sense, I reckon.
But, if Stiles can soup up the base IE engine... why couldn't MS engineers, too?
In the meantime, if you want to see what the next version of IE will look like, I highly recommend you pay $29.95 and buy Netcaptor. IMHO, it blows away Opera, Netscape and any other browser. The only thing I miss with Netcaptor is the Google toolbar, which does not work with tabbed browsers, which is why you won't be seeing the Google toolbar available for either Opera or Netscape.
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Cory Kleinschmidt
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