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Examples : Web browsers and file formats

The Browser War

Netscape and Internet Explorer were successively dominant. As competitors, they were innovating. Dominant, they have blocked the development of the Web.

File Formats

File formats ought to be open standards:

to allow compatibility and file exchange,
to guarantee that recorded data is long-lasting.

Mozilla - http://mozilla.org/products/
101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot - http://www.xulplanet.com/ndeakin/arts/reasons.html.
Netscape Browsers Epitaph. A Tale of the Rise, Glory and Fall of Netscape. http://www.azcomputerdoctor.com/netscape-browsers-epitaph.htm
Nescape Browsers Epitaph: The Netscape story continues... http://www.azcomputerdoctor.com/Netscape-browsers-continued.htm
OpenOffice.org - http://openoffice.org/