SXSW browser panel from earlier this year finally online!
Tuesday, 16. October 2007, 19:45:06
I had the pleasure of attending this panel - "Browser Wars Retrospective: Past, Present and Future Battlefields" - at SXSW back in March, and hearing Opera's philosophy and vision laid out and discussed by our very own Chief Standards Officer, Charles McCathieNevile, only made me prouder to be an Opera employee.
It was a very interesting discussion featuring the following panelists:
Arun Ranganathan: AOL
Brendan Eich: CTO, Mozilla
Charles McCathieNevile: CSO, Opera Software
Chris Wilson: IE Platform Architect, Microsoft
Putting these four intelligent people together (each with their own opinions) in front of an engaged audience resulted in a spirited conversation (especially during the Q & A). The panel got a good amount of attention afterwards, such as in the following articles and blog posts:
SXSW: Browser Wars Redux?
Browser Panel at SXSW
Mozilla CTO talks about mobile browsing (updated)
Since the browser world is constantly on the move (and I think Opera deserves some credit for that), a browser discussion from March 2007 might feel a little outdated to some, but it's interesting to look back to compare what was discussed and what has happened since then.
If you want to see Opera-related panels at the next SXSW, be sure to vote on the panels listed here: http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2007/09/04/have-browser-will-travel