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- Ishtumba, on 10/12/2007, -4/+86No more browsers.. it's hard enough to develop with the number we have currently.
- i440, on 10/12/2007, -18/+88I don't know about you, but I personally hope it hideously breaks the standards and then becomes extremely popular so designers will have to develop for it. Wouldn't that be nice?
- Ishtumba, on 10/12/2007, -8/+65It's difficult to identify sarcasm with the number of idiots that crawl through here.
- i440, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32@Ishtumba & rivvercoon
I fall under both the "sarcasm" and "idiot" catagories, so I understand the confusion. - Roulette, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Yeah, Yowser is a bad idea. It sounded too cluttered with EVERY feature. Firefox has the best model: extensions. The user chooses what features get included. No clutter. :)
- rivvercoon, on 10/12/2007, -13/+24I love how i440 gets modded down because some people don't understand sarcasm.
- brucebeh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12heh, i like the name.
So when google makes a browser, is it called Gowser? What about Baidu, Bowser? - cvp1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Yowser = Flock
- diafel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10What a misleading headline.
- dbug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I don't know if I would feel comfortable using a third party build of firefox. Or maybe I'm just paranoid.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10"Plus theres more targets for hackers. Which will divide their efforts."
On that note we should break up the Internet into one network per person. Then we'd never get hacked. - Chex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6With more Yahoo ads than you can shake a stick at.
- joshfraz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"A six month project if three engineers are doing it in a garage. Five years if you put one hundred programmers on it."
So true! - Computer_Kid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6How much do you want to bet it will just be a skin for IE.
- Narpas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5For years? Man, just give up and see a doctor. If you havn't gotten it to come along in years, get some help!
- EggzDiggs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Or Firefox, except you have to sign on with your Yahoo ID every time you open it up.
- farm3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Have you heard of the word "standards"? You can have a look at the WWW consortium.
More browsers doesn't mean more coding neccessarily only in the case of M$-like companies who try to impose their own way. - xserver2003, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Incorrect title.. i had great hopes before opening this article :/ alas it was a spoof or rather a clever editorial practice :(
- BigKoi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I thought Flock was also a secret Yahoo broswer. It uses Yahoo as the default search engine and also integrates Yahoo's flickr service. Incidentally it's also based on FireFox.
- babelfishi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Like Alefox? - http://sourceforge.net/projects/alefox
- Tbobx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4An interesting interview with Guy Kawasaki. But, the title is wrong. It has nothing to do with Yowser, a Yahoo Browser.
- EggzDiggs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Erm.. have you heard of Guy Kawasaki before? If not I don't think he needs to worry about getting rich.
http://www.guykawasaki.com/ - codyman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I just use firefox.. and for you speed fans out there, I just found these builds today... they are all sse2 builds of firefox.. and they scream... updated dailly too :-)
http://pryan.org/firefox/bangbang023/ - L0t3k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2We already have a Google, you need to make a "next big thing". You're using one of them now. :)
- darkmist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2personal unbiased opinion... did anyone else catch that oxymoron?
- fero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Hockey is a great sport because it combines the physicality of football, the team play of basketball, the poetry of ballet, the complexity of mathematics, and the aerobics of soccer. There is only one activity that is more physically, emotionally, and intellectually captivating than hockey, and it's not blogging."
I'm not a hockey fan, but I have to say I love that comment! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"I don't know about you, but I personally hope it hideously breaks the standards and then becomes extremely popular so designers will have to develop for it. Wouldn't that be nice?"
Why not? It worked for Internet Explorer; Microsoft is everyone's hero for it. Screw it, I think there should be a new web browser every single month, and each one should just haul off and invent it's OWN web languages, and not even document them so nobody knows what they do. From any one person's point of view, the web should consist of 99% broken pages and 1% pages that will work in your browser and nobody else's. I bet DRM supporters just reading that came so hard they got an ulcer and a hemmorage. - LaughingMan11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"all-encompassing IM and chat, photo sharing, video, collaborative screens, Flash, social networking, whatever. "
Whoa whoa whoa... too much crap to throw into one application. A web browser is supposed to be an application with the singular purpose of presenting web content to the user. The content itself, especially since "Web 2.0", has grown more powerful and encompasses everything that he just listed, but promoting each of those from content to be displayed to specific functions of the application doesn't make any sense.
The possible advantages of integrating an IM client or a social networking client or a Flickr-app into a web browser is outweighed by the extra bloat. Inevitably a browser like this is going to be a Jack of All Trades, Master of None...
Take a look at the Mozilla suite from years ago. It was big, bloated, and was an albatross for the Mozilla project until Firefox came along and did what amounted to stripping out all of the bloat and leaving just the browser. No one wants a half-assed IM client that lives in a browser window's side bar... they want a fully-assed IM client with powerful features.
Certain apps make sense to be dedicated applications, like your IM client, while others like social networking, makes more sense to be a web based one... Moving stuff to this weird middle ground of being a conjoined twin to the browser makes no sense. - LaughingMan11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2While I don't agree with him, it's kind of rude to make fun of his name...
- MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not installing freaking anything named 'Yowser' on any hardware I've paid hard earned money for. - esaks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Although I don't agree with the feature set he proposed, that would be a good way to increase the usage of yahoo search. If the browser was better than firefox, like how firefox is better than IE.
- pmarks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The proper place for programming is the basement, not the garage.
- blakholephysics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1since when did hackers focus on anything but the majority?
- heinousjay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interesting quotes from Mr. Kawasaki's bio:
"From Nova, its CEO Marty Gruber, and my Jewish colleagues in the jewelry business, I learned how to sell."
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"We created an email product called Emailer that we sold to Claris and then a list server product called LetterRip." - mike_p, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Heck.... Why not just call it Googler. My logic?
Browse = Browser
Google (now officially a verb in Oxford D) = Googler - razei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, but Yowser would be much more popular than Flock, simply because it's by Yahoo.
- zetsurin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, an article from a windows fanboy, about apple. This is news? I WONDER what points of view it holds?
- Familyguykiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The hell im goin to use a yahoo broswer firefox all the way. Is there not enough browser already?
- razei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1While I would love a Google Browser [google fanboy :P], Google already supports Firefox a lot. I don't think they would.
- LaughingMan11, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3God... you guys are a bunch of nerds.
- zone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Howard Yowser?
- dbug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So true. Too bad the people with the big money and the fancy weblogs usually are just boneheads with silly names.
- yak86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wanna show us a screenshot?
- UrlorJkron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Googler sounds like a super-villain name to me.
- yak86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1um.. they made safari
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1go go gadget YOWSER!
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Inaccurate title, buried.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"only people with at least some knowledge of programming should be allowed to actually code websites, but that's just not going to happen anytime soon."
Only in computers is it taken for granted that having to learn something is a a bad idea that should be avoided. We have driver's ed., home ec., and even sex ed. in our schools because it's perfectly alright to expect that you have to know SOMETHING to safely operate a vehicle, stove, or sex organ. You have to learn to speak and write your native language to effectively communicate with your fellow humans. Yet computers should just work so we could just randomly stomp on the keyboard and they know to make the webpage by themselves? If they could do that, then why give us any kind of input device at all?
Here, watch: 'jkl;'AEFKL;J ;qwioehtvq98a4v5890890U T0LSMNDFFF9P8729 83Y54 Could you understand that? Can you find anybody who can? In the entirety of the human race of 6.2 billion people, is there anybody who would recognize this language? Well, we have rules of syntax and spelling so that other people can understand what you're trying to communicate. If none of our people are smart enough to transcend this limitation, then none of them know how to program the computer that way. So you need to use rules of syntax to communicate with the computer. Those rules are called "computer languages". - Recluse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@Computer_Kid
Or firefox, or opera.. - quellerie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm amazed this submission got to the front-page with that misleading title. It's taking way out of all proportion a rather silly idea thrown out by Kawasaki as he answers a speculative "what would you do if" question. To my mind the interview is interesting as a whole -- with some intriguing points such as the question of what will happen to corporate blogging if there's ever a lawsuit brought by a 'mislead' investor. Bottom line, webtickle was being extremely mischievous when s/he chose the heading for this post.
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