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Originally Posted by furiousgtz
yeah you never no back in the day it was IE and Netscape and now its about firefox 3.0. I think firefox care less about opera or skyfire for mobile devices they know can create something better.
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Considering how good those are, though, it's not quite so open-and-shut. IE6 was just plain ancient in design and functionality, so it was easy to improve beyond, and IE7 hasn't really tried very hard. Opera and Skyfire are both brilliant, heavily-refined browsers. Opera comes from a long line of mobile experience, so it's very heavily-refined now. It's hard for a newcomer (even though Mozilla has desktop experience) to be able to match that right off the bat. And Skyfire is a unique and original approach that provides functionality (server-side streaming of Flash content, music, PDFs, etc.) that is unique to them, providing a completely different challenge. I'm not saying Mozilla CAN'T succeed, only that it was a much tougher playing field to enter. That's why I was happy to see they were trying to think about doing things in a completely original way.