Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-23-2010

[andrewducker]

• How Does Homeopathy Work? A simple explanation.
  (tags: healthcare homeopathy skepticism)
• Microsoft release their new "Choose what browser you want to run" page.
  I like the way that the options change order randomly each time.
  (tags: browsers microsoft windows)

Comments

[andrewducker]

This is the end(ish) of a 15 year battle. Microsoft was terrified that the web/internet would make the operating system irrelevant, because everything would happen online. Internet Explorer was part of the strategy for keeping people on Windows, because by including more features than anyone else you could make sure that developers would code applications to match your browser rather than anyone else's.

You can still see some of the side-effects from this with large companies that are having problems migrating their web browsers away from IE6, because they have internal (or unsupported bought in) apps that were coded for a browser rather than general standards.