Marc Andreessen backs new browser?
Saturday, 15. August 2009, 16:10:28
Netscape founder Marc Andreessen is apparently backing a new browser called "RockMelt". Details are sketchy at the moment, but rumours have it that it's a browser tailored for Facebook.
I hope the rumours are untrue.
What I am hoping for is that RockMelt will be a Web browser which is not tied to any specific sites, and that it will introduce a completely new browser engine. Writing a browser engine is a huge undertaking, but we need more of them on the market.
The larger the number of widely used browser engines is, the lower the impact of security holes in any single browser, the more expensive and time-consuming it will be for virus and malware authors to infect computers, and the higher the benefits are for writing standards-compliant Web pages.
I hope the rumours are untrue.
What I am hoping for is that RockMelt will be a Web browser which is not tied to any specific sites, and that it will introduce a completely new browser engine. Writing a browser engine is a huge undertaking, but we need more of them on the market.
The larger the number of widely used browser engines is, the lower the impact of security holes in any single browser, the more expensive and time-consuming it will be for virus and malware authors to infect computers, and the higher the benefits are for writing standards-compliant Web pages.
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