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Extract:

"These people have forgotten that all user interfaces used to be “richer environments,” which the users abandoned by the millions, in favor of the browser, the moment they got a chance. I said millions and I meant millions: tens of millions, hundreds of millions of browser downloads from the Netscape that was, and the software vendors fighting the rearguard actions to defend their “richer,” “more responsive,” “higher-performance” client software; and losing, losing...

...That’s why the phrase quoted above, about flexibility and usability, is so completely 100% wrong. Browsers are more usable because they’re less flexible."

I agree with the last statement a great deal...

Posted by Navneet at July 13, 2003 11:30 PM | TrackBack | Comments disabled due to spam