Building a Better Web Browser

By Blane Warrene | January 3, 2005 | Open Source

Some interesting theory from a former Internet Explorer program manager who is now out on his own as a product design and project management consultant.

Sometimes it is a breath of fresh air to step back and take the 10,000 foot view of a topic — and perhaps see a perspective at first glance we might disagree with.

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Blane Warrene

Blane is a writer and researcher focusing on Apple and Open Source technologies. Prior to this, he helped found a commercial software and consulting venture, and worked in the financial services sector as a director of technology and in varying technical roles. Blane maintains Open Sourcery: SitePoint's Open Source Blog.

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ultrabob January 12, 2005 at 5:18 pm: Haven’t tried Avant yet, but since Internet Explorer’s layout engine isn’t very good (as a designer when I ever have to fix an odd standards compliance bug on one of my pages it is for ie) it doesn’t sound like avant would be all that good.
peach January 3, 2005 at 6:18 pm: well the new avant browser 10 is kinda buggy. odd because avant 9 was really stable
zero7 January 3, 2005 at 2:29 pm: I’ve been using Avant Browser exclusively for quite a while now and I’ve never had it crash (yet).
Hierophant January 3, 2005 at 2:07 pm: If only Avant Browser didn’t crash every five seconds. It is doubtful that any one program will be perfect for everyone nor fulfill 100% of everyone’s needs.
peach January 3, 2005 at 1:27 pm: I think something close to the perfect browser is avant browser. It uses the ie layout render but it has taken care of most security flaws
Dean C January 3, 2005 at 12:49 pm: Certainly an interesting read. Although I’d disagree with a lot of what Scott says :) The article also starts poorly with a typo on the first line hehe