Rebirth of the Tech Madman

The fuse is the same fiercely competitive market research field. It was as if an appointment had been made together, and at the end of the year they presented their own statistics and analysis results.

For example, International Data Information Co., Ltd., headquartered in the Massachusetts State of the East Coast of the United States, pointed out in its report that the Netscape browser netscape_navigator as a challenger, the market share has soared to 20%; it once occupied The philosopher browser polestar, which has a market share of 90%, has rapidly fallen to 60%-this trend of declining and declining will continue next year.

International Data Information's statement is tantamount to major good news for the challenger Netscape, and the staff at the top and bottom are all excited about it.

However, another market research organization in the eastern United States, Gartner, headquartered in Connecticut, had different results.

Compared with the absolute monopoly in the case of one person singing, the market share of the philosopher browser polestar has indeed fallen very significantly, but it still attracts more than two-thirds of Internet users.

The market share of Netscape browser netscape_navigator has grown rapidly and it has attracted at least one-third of Internet users.

It is worth noting that in addition to these two top-ranked browsers, the development momentum of third-party browsers should also not be underestimated. The proportion of Internet users attracted by it has reached one-fifth.

The reason why the proportion of Internet users attracted by these three types of browsers totals more than one. That is because in reality, many Internet users have installed more than one browser on their computers.

This result also reveals the chaos caused by the fierce competition in the browser field at this stage, that is, different browser products have great differences in the degree of compliance with industry standards. Finally, web designers must consider which type of browsing Only the browser can render correctly and display the interface that they have envisioned normally. If users want to enjoy the World Wide Web, they have to install multiple browsers along with it.

Gartner believes that when the Netscape browser netscape_navigator is focused on challenging the philosopher browser polestar, the activity of these third-party browsers can even threaten them at the same time. Perhaps, netscape_navigator, which is still relatively weak, will be more affected.

The passionate Netscape company at work first unconvincedly questioned whether Gartner’s market research results can withstand scrutiny in terms of rigor—the so-called third-party browsers, shouldn’t they just come up soon for help, saying yes You can't be too late for the Microsoft browser PR. Just relying on it, can it seriously affect me?

Like International Data Information Co., Ltd., Gartner has focused on the it industry for many years. Of course, it has to maintain the authority of its own market research report, so it announced another list of incomplete information collection-you do not implicitly criticize it. I have ulterior motives to use third-party browsers to refer to Microsoft browsers to advertise, then I will let you see how big the camp of third-party browsers is now! How miscellaneous!

This unfinished list is listed, which can shock the onlookers, including the industry-when will it start, the browser is so easy to get?

In addition to the Microsoft browser mentioned by Netscape, what other AOL browsers, Bertelsmann browsers, CNN browsers...

This scenario can be described as numerous-no wonder Gartner has not completed all the statistics.

On Tang Huan’s desk were several market research reports such as these. While browsing, he listened to reports by Brad Swaelberg, CEO of Zheru Software, and others.

When he saw Gartner’s spectacular list of third-party browsers, Tang Huan, the creator of the idea, couldn’t help but laugh, and joked: “Your efficiency is really high. So many companies have it. Your own browser."

Brad Svolberg replied in a pragmatic way: "The main reason is that they regard the value of the browser as a new window of publicity similar to the World Wide Web site, especially the technical difficulty is not high-the simplest only needs to be browsed by us. The polestar is replaced by a set of skins with its logo, and it can be launched in no uncertain terms. Naturally, everyone is highly motivated."

"That's inseparable from your promotion." Tang Huan smiled affirmatively.

I have to say that this kind of charisma of leadership is completely different from Jobs, Gates and others. In my own company, I always spit "it’s just shit" and "this is the stupidest plan I have ever seen." "The method of spurring subordinates with extreme depreciation has well whitewashed the rigor of the entire company system that even Intel can't match.

Pushing away those market research reports, Tang Huan asked again: "Now, what are the reactions of all parties to this?"

"The Netscape company, which has been immersed in our competition, probably hasn’t really figured out what’s going on until now." Brad Svolberg couldn’t help but laugh: "If you have some clues, then In the debate about how many of these third-party browsers are technically independent browsers in the strict sense."

Tang Huan sighed: "Zheru Software's products are not only browsers, but the mission is even more important to lead the industry and guide the technical direction. It is really not worth wasting too much energy for rookies like Netscape. They can only choose to browse The device field has entered a pattern of thousands of trees and pear blossoms, drowning the opponent."

It is necessary to point out that freedom and free are the driving force of the Internet, and we should not just talk about it, but should have a deep understanding of the laws of survival and development under this major premise.

The personal computer industry can rely on a set of advanced platform standards to conquer the east and the west, and conquer the north and the west, until it dominates the world. But if the Internet environment is still so domineering, users have long been attracted by free solutions. Mr. Gein Competitors will go to break the existing "lower limit" of the means of wooing.

In the early 1990s, when Tang Huan contributed the research results of the World Wide Web, his method was far more relaxed and free than the implementation of the Fangyuan computer standard, and the purpose was to allow everyone to shift from the various early Internet application models to On the unified platform of the World Wide Web.

He asked Tim Berners-Lee to form and lead the World Wide Web Consortium, in order to solve the incompatibility problems caused by different platforms, different technologies and different developers in web applications, and to ensure the smooth and complete circulation of web information. Developed a series of standards and urged web application developers and content providers to follow these standards.

The content of these standards includes the specification of the language used, the principles in the development process, the interpretation of the engine's behavior, and so on.

Among them, Zheru contributed a lot of technical standards research results including html-hypertext markup language, css-cascading style sheets, scripting_language-scripting language, xml-extensible markup language, etc., to standardize the Internet in one fell swoop A move.

But there is one thing. These web standards formulated by the World Wide Web Consortium are not mandatory, but only recommendations.

Therefore, this is the reason why Netscape is stunned. It adds exclusive html and css tags, introduces Sun Microsystems’ java language and other means to challenge existing standards and create the same web page in its own home. On platforms other than the browser netscape_navigator, it is often impossible to render normally, so that developers have to launch different versions of web pages for mainstream browsers to achieve the best display effect.

The problem then arises. Netscape, a shit-chucking stick, makes everyone confused and increases labor out of thin air. But why is it still popular?

This involves another question, that is, at this stage, what is the specific performance of the competition between different browsers? What attracts users so that they can't do without it?

The answer is simple, that is the function-the more the better!

No matter how strong Zheru Software Company is, it is impossible for its own products to have all the functions, regardless of primary or secondary, big or small.

The most powerful evidence of this trend is the rapid increase in the version numbers of various browsers and the continuous increase in program size.

Its priority is even higher than the stability of the product itself-the frequent crashes of the Netscape browser netscape_navigator during use have become an impressive feature of it.

Not to mention, in the context of the barbaric growth of the Internet today, users just buy it.

This phenomenon is similar to the competition in the cpu field. As long as you find a way to increase the operating frequency, you can simply and rudely make up for the performance shortcomings caused by the architecture design-as the so-called one handsome cover one hundred ugly.

This is the internal reason why Netscape dared to challenge the powerful philosophical software in the Internet age and live happily.

This is also the true feature of the Internet-the current strong like Philosophy Software may fall into the hatred of the ages; the once frustrated like ibm may turn over; the newly emerging raw melon eggs like Netscape may succeed in rebellion...

All in all, there are various possibilities in the Internet age!

Tang it, who saw all of this clearly, faced the ups and downs, as always, calmly and commanding.

The World Wide Web Consortium was blushing and his neck was thick, and Tim Berners-Lee was so angry that he was almost brain-struck. Rebels like Netscape still ignored them and went their own way. Then Tang Huan simply turned the browser competition to another one. On track-strictly speaking, it is the second round of the original space-time browser war.

Is the browser important? Of course it is important! It is regarded as a basic platform comparable to an operating system, and who controls it, the Internet belongs to the winner!

However, browser competition does not necessarily require developers to do their best to deliver their products to all users.

Don't forget, the current browsers are essentially free.

For companies like Zheru and Netscape that produce browser products, the profit is in the background, that is, the company uses web servers that correspond to front-end browsers such as polestar and netscape_navigator to output World Wide Web content.

In this case, the essence of browser competition is obvious. It is a programming interface-it is not difficult to imagine who occupies all the terminal computers in the front and the web server in the back.

On the other hand, taking the original time and space into the browser field of the new century, what 360 browser, QQ browser, Sohu browser... Although boasting about how good its own technology is, is it really true? Is the browser kernel developed by yourself?

The answer is of course not-no matter how dazzling the types of browsers on the market, there are only a handful of cores in them, just like Android smartphones. No matter how proudly you claim that deep development, you can’t change the essence of being born in Google.

So what is the motivation for so many browsers?

This answer can be thought of by yourself~www.readwn.com~ Look at this type of browser installed on the computer, you will know what you have done-directly set the Internet homepage of the operating system as your homepage; the ones listed on the homepage Websites belong to collaborators... Everyone is fighting for the entrance of users to the Internet.

But in fact, this kind of entrance is not really that important for philosopher software that provides technical solutions.

In terms of the technical architecture of the polestar browser, there is one place that other competitors don’t care about and are unwilling to follow, that is, at the programming interface level, the kernel is independent for third parties to call-even. With the skin technology that has been used on products such as players, it is easy to match a "brand new" browser with an oem version.

One of the first benefits brought by this is that it is very convenient to integrate polestar into the operating system.

Ever since, the essence of browser competition is the back-end server represented by the programming interface, and the front-end browser as the entrance to the Internet, and the interests of all parties’ eyes are combined together. Tang it directed a game in the browser field. The prosperous drama of pear blossoms.

The third-party browsers derived from the polestar kernel have also affected polestar’s own share, but the powerful philosopher software does not really care about this. At most, the stock price fluctuates if the truth is not clear, it is not painful, but closely follows. In the back, independent technological competitors like Netscape were caught in the ocean of People's War.

Now that he sees the actual effect, Tang Huan is satisfied, but also feels very funny.

But he remained calm, and turned to ask Brad Svolberg-what specific actions were taken in the process of actually suppressing Netscape.