Web browsers enter a golden age with lots of speed

By TROY WOLVERTON San Jose Mercury News It's been a long time coming, but the humble Web browser is finally entering a golden age. Some 20 years after creation of the World Wide Web and more than 10 years after Microsoft crushed Netscape, the browser market has become increasingly dynamic. Not only are a range of competitors vying for the turf that Microsoft's Internet Explorer once had almost to itself, but they also are spurring an increasingly rapid cycle of innovation. As a result, consumers are able to load Web pages faster and do more things with their Web browsers than ever before. In the early days of the Web, Netscape and Microsoft battled over trying to set the standards for how sites would be designed. Now, browser makers have generally accepted third-party design standards and are instead trying to make the... [read full story]                    

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