I was checking for new and updated sofware, today (I'm a mac-head), and I found a new web browser that somebody had made by adding a couple new features on top of Apple's WebKit. In the comments section there were four or five rather nasty comments about how there were too many damn web browsers, nowadays, and that this guy should just keep his junk out of their face, if you please. The short-sigtedness of these people blew me away. Diversity is always desirable. If we have a million browsers, we won't have enough. No, not every one will become ubiquitous (ubiquitous browsers are a bad idea, anyways, as we've seen), but the top 4 or 5 will adopt the smart ideas from the rest and try to out-innovate each other - and that's just good for everybody. The worst thing to happen to the web in it's infancy was for Netscape to lose the browser wars. Now the wars are back, and we're seeing some very nice progress, again. Days of plenty are returned and too many browsers are part of the reason.
