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personal webnode of Haiko Hebig

In an unsorted list, some other voices on the Microsoft/AOL-deal and the future of Internet Explorer and Mozilla:

• Ian Hixie: Congratulations to AOL on yet another stunning negotiation. - liked the undertone of this one
• Brad Choate: Microsoft should adopt Mozilla as the official browser for Windows
• Frans Bouma: Don't try to re-invent the browser, please [because] the concept of the 'browser' is a concept of the past - he is not only wrong on that, but also should give a very close look at XUL and the GRE
• Joel on Software: Firebird 0.6 is brilliant, and one Netscape employee is working in his spare time to save all your [Netscape] jobs. Wake up - Joel says AOL wouldn't embed Gecko anyway, as it is a major pain in the lower back to do, so the right thing would be "to implement Mozilla as a COM control that supports the same embedding interfaces as IE, so that the AOL programmers can switch to Gecko." And Adam Lock is the one trying to do it in a private effort
• Ongoing: Browsers and CSS, again
• Ryan Lowe: Browsing Zenith Upon Us?
• DonXML: IE is not really dead, just like COM it will be reborn with a much improved architecture (which is desperately needed).