Comments on: Of elephants and mice http://www.jansch.nl/2006/04/27/of-elephants-and-mice/ Ivo's blog about PHP, the internet and life in general Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:11:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Philip Hofstetter http://www.jansch.nl/2006/04/27/of-elephants-and-mice/comment-page-1/#comment-7491 Philip Hofstetter Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:46:59 +0000 http://www.jansch.nl/?p=371#comment-7491 Hi, > This is more about how given enough weight, any market can > be taken. Internet Explorer didn't crush Netscape because it > was a better browser. Microsoft just was a bigger player with > better cards. I disagree. It was ALSO because IE was the better browser. Granted, IE 2 and 3 sucked. But IE4 was WAY more HTML compliant than Netscape 4. It also ran faster. Much faster. IE4 was way superior to netscape, thus leading to us geeks recommending IE to internet-beginners back then which - I think - is ALSO part of IEs high rate of adoption. Another thing about being beaten by google: You all know google maps. But do you know that http://map.search.ch beat google by about 2 months? The search.ch guys had AJAX and even satellite imagery way before google. But google got all the fame. A shame. Philip Hi,

> This is more about how given enough weight, any market can
> be taken. Internet Explorer didn’t crush Netscape because it
> was a better browser. Microsoft just was a bigger player with
> better cards.

I disagree. It was ALSO because IE was the better browser. Granted, IE 2 and 3 sucked. But IE4 was WAY more HTML compliant than Netscape 4. It also ran faster. Much faster.

IE4 was way superior to netscape, thus leading to us geeks recommending IE to internet-beginners back then which – I think – is ALSO part of IEs high rate of adoption.

Another thing about being beaten by google: You all know google maps. But do you know that http://map.search.ch beat google by about 2 months? The search.ch guys had AJAX and even satellite imagery way before google. But google got all the fame.

A shame.

Philip

]]> By: Ivo Jansch http://www.jansch.nl/2006/04/27/of-elephants-and-mice/comment-page-1/#comment-7221 Ivo Jansch Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:25:58 +0000 http://www.jansch.nl/?p=371#comment-7221 Sounds the same indeed. I too use google products (even have google ads on the site) Sounds the same indeed. I too use google products (even have google ads on the site)

]]> By: Daniel http://www.jansch.nl/2006/04/27/of-elephants-and-mice/comment-page-1/#comment-7071 Daniel Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:48:54 +0000 http://www.jansch.nl/?p=371#comment-7071 Just to clarify, i to am working to distinguish the site and am not crying over spilt milk. I just dont like the way that the bigger companies tend to walk all over the little guys.. I try to support the underdogs, but still have to admit that i use gmail and other G$$gle products, as i do M$.. Just to clarify, i to am working to distinguish the site and am not crying over spilt milk. I just dont like the way that the bigger companies tend to walk all over the little guys..

I try to support the underdogs, but still have to admit that i use gmail and other G$$gle products, as i do M$..

]]> By: Daniel http://www.jansch.nl/2006/04/27/of-elephants-and-mice/comment-page-1/#comment-7061 Daniel Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:43:30 +0000 http://www.jansch.nl/?p=371#comment-7061 I had a similar situation with google base. I find it quite annoying that they seem to be getting very greedy in their actions... Yes competition is good.. but they are getting more like M$ every day. I had a similar situation with google base. I find it quite annoying that they seem to be getting very greedy in their actions… Yes competition is good.. but they are getting more like M$ every day.

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