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Yahoo's Douglas Crockford, the man who created JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), says it's high time for a new browser war, eWeek reports. In his keynote address to the Rich Web Experience conference earlier this month, Crockford claimed that the last time core building blocks of the Internet such as HTML and and ECMAScript were revised (1999) was the result of the Internet Explorer versus Netscape Navigator browser war.
While Crockford says we need a new war, I'd argue that we've already got a dandy one going on right now: IE is being challenged by Mozilla Firefox, while Google Chrome has just entered the ring to go head-to-head with Opera and Apple Safari to fight for third place.
If I'm right about the current five-way struggle qualifying as a real browser war, here are a few reasons why Browser War II may have a better outcome than the original:
So, how about it? Is Browser War II already in progress, or are these just skirmishes? Do you see the outcome as being better than BWI? Hit the comment button and let us know what you think.
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