History Is Fractal. The Closer You Look,

What We Now Call The Browser Is Whatever Defines The Web. What Fits In The Browser Is The World Wide Web And A Number Of Trivial Standards To Handle That So That The Content Comes.

I Am Looking At It From The Point Of View Of A Harried User, Which I Am, And I Believe That I Am Much More Like The Typical Non-technical Harried User Than I Am Like The People Who Smoothly Operate Everything.

The Ideas Keep Going, You Have The Material, You Cut Because There's A Limit To The Space Allowed To You. And The Space Is Limited Because Of Some Other Constraints That Have To Do With Money Or Printing Or Whatever.

I Am A Design Chauvinist. I Believe That Good Design Is Magical And Not To Be Lightly Tinkered With. The Difference Between A Great Design And A Lousy One Is In The Meshing Of The Thousand Details That Either Fit Or Don't, And The Spirit Of The Passionate Intellect That Has Tied Them Together, Or Tried. That's Why Programming - Or Buying Software - On The Basis Of "lists Of Features" Is A Doomed And Misguided Effort. The Features Can Be Thrown Together, As In A Garbage Can, Or Carefully Laid Together And Interwoven In Elegant Unification, As In Apl, Or The Forth Language, Or The Game Of Chess.

Project Xanadu Is Essentially My Trademark. It Was Originally, And Has Returned To My Arms As That.