Browsersphere

Despite almost feeling like I was there, thanks to the folks I’m following on Twitter, I was very interested in finding out more about what was discussed at the SXSW panel, Browser Wars III: The Platform Wins, which went down yesterday.  Now that I’ve read SXSW: Big Browsers Butt Heads, I think it’s pretty safe to say that no wars actually broke out (despite some people’s wishes).  There was some interesting discussion, though, ranging from Google’s choice to go with WebKit for Chrome instead of Gecko, to what web standards have in common with sausage, to how JavaScript performance became such a huge part of the browser wars of late.  Definitely give the article a read if you get a chance.

Tags: Articles, Browser Wars, Chrome, Gecko, JavaScript, Performance, SXSW, Twitter, Web Standards, WebKit

An interesting article over at Mobinode sheds some light on the current state of the browser wars in China.  The following is an excerpt:

There is no doubt that Maxthon is still the No.1 Chinese browser in the market, but we can see that the competition is getting more intense. Tencent has its so called TT browser bundled with QQ for a long time, Firefox is more and more accepted by high educated Internet users; If you search for ["Browser" in Chinese], there are a couple of Chinese browsers which are good alternatives. I have tried one called EnjoyIE developed by a team based in Beijing. Even though the founder told me that he was doing this for his own interest, but the fact is that this browser has already got 2 millions users and for me it is working even faster than Maxthon.

The article also goes on to discuss the mobile space, in which an up-and-coming browser called UCWeb is showing promise with upwards of 25 million users.

Be sure to read the entire article, because it’s certainly interesting to see how the browser wars are shaping up overseas.

Tags: Browser Wars, China, Competition, EnjoyIE, Firefox, Maxthon, Mobile, TT Browser, UCWeb