{"id":1549,"date":"2002-07-10T11:58:51","date_gmt":"2002-07-10T11:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2002-07-10T11:58:51","modified_gmt":"2002-07-10T11:58:51","slug":"episode_iii_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"Episode III &#8211; The Browser Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Two interesting things I bumped into this morning that seemed to compliment each other nicely.  First was an article on <A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\">c|net<\/A> titled <A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1023-941926.html\">Sites bow to Microsoft&#8217;s browser king<\/A>.  The article talks about people who are still designing sites that are made to work in IE and ignore other browsers.  Then I run into this post by <A HREF=\"http:\/\/live.curry.com\/\">Adam<\/A> over on his blog:<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><BLOCKQUOTE><P><\/p>\n<p \/>One of my heroes, Peter Ford <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolblogs.com\/stories\/storyReader$471\">writes<\/a> on schoolblogs.com: &#8220;<\/p>\n<p \/>&#009;&#8221;If&nbsp;a student leaves my class with the idea that Internet Explorer is the only internet browser then I have done him or her a disservice. &nbsp;They should have experienced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/\">Opera<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/\">Mozilla<\/a> or others in their time under my influence. Then I can honestly say that they are learning generic skills that will equip them to make increasingly important choices as they reach the &#8216;real world&#8217; threshold.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/live.curry.com\/\">Adam Curry: Adam Curry&#8217;s Weblog<\/a>]<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n<p \/><P>While I do admit to using IE as a semi-primary browser for a while, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/\">Mozilla<\/A> easily went and toppled it from its place.  And I love the features in Mozilla.  I haven&#8217;t seen a popup ad in ages (though they do still sneak through now and then).<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two interesting things I bumped into this morning that seemed to compliment each other nicely. First was an article on c|net titled Sites bow to Microsoft&#8217;s browser king. The article talks about people who are still designing sites that are made to work in IE and ignore other browsers. Then I run into this post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}