In the early days of the Internet, the entire world was chaotic. Tim. Berners. Although Sir Lee created the World Wide Web, at this time there was only text, flowing in the web. Later, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) said that text was monotonous, so the Mosaic browser was created. The Mosaic browser is good, and it has brought a boon of graphical interfaces to the Internet.

And the NCSA is noble, it has so much to do that it doesn't have time to spread the gospel widely. So it let its employee Mark. Anderson opened Netscape to bring Netscape Navigator, the perfect graphics browser, to the Internet. What's more, Netscape is free, which makes it easy for all Internet users in the world to use it.

From then on, it was not just text that flowed through the Internet. People use HTML to define the structure of the text and make it clear that the text is layered and clear. Later, people felt that they deserved better, so they added some language to describe the style of the text between the different structures, and that's what CSS does, defining how a web page behaves. Later, the colorful web page could not satisfy people, they wanted the web page to achieve more functions, so javascript, dynamic scripting, Flash, DHTML and many other great functions appeared, and the web page had a variety of capabilities......

And all this development process is inseparable from an organization called W3C. Even today, when we open the source code of the web page, we can still see the ghost of the W3C floating at the very top. It's like Freemasonry, ruling the entire internet (fog) in the shadows. Any company that doesn't conform to its standards has been hit mercilessly.

The origin of this organization. It can be traced back to October 1994 when the MIT Computer Science Laboratory, W3C, a non-profit organization. It was at this time and in this place that it was established. His founder, who is also the founder of the World Wide Web, Tim Brown. Berners. Sir Lee.

"Tim. Berners. Lee, you old fool! "Mark. Anderson threw a document into the trash can in the corner of the wall, and spun around like a hungry wolf.

"How can he make CSS a standard for the Internet, how can he!" Mark. Anderson exasperated: "I'm the creator of the Internet Presentation Layer Standards, and what authority does he have to add CSS to the W3C standard without my consent?" ”

He walked around his office twice, and suddenly there was two knocks on the door from outside. Mark. Anderson calmed down, he didn't want to look angry in front of his staff.

"Mr. Anderson, you'd better come and see this." Previously, he was in charge of the team leader of the six-ear browser test. He walked in with an ugly face.

"What's the matter?" Mark. Anderson frowned, picked up the clothes from his chair and walked outside.

The team leader led the way in front and said cautiously: "According to your requirements, although a preliminary test report has been made, we have not stopped testing the six-eared browser. ”

Mark. Anderson nodded and said in agreement: "That's right, Six Ears Software Company is a great enemy, and only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one win a hundred battles." ”

"So, we found out something amazing." The group leader pushed open the door to the studio. More than a dozen computers were buzzing inside. The test engineers constantly opened various web pages, used each function one by one, and then recorded the effect, speed of use and experience one by one.

The test team leader said with a grim face: "We have been tested for two days, but until now. The Six-Ear browser hasn't crashed once. ”

Mark. Anderson was taken aback and said incredulously, "This can't be! ”

The team leader beckoned, and a team member hurriedly brought over a stack of materials. Open it and hand it to Mark. Anderson. When he opened the information, the team leader continued: "Although there is no source code of the six-eared browser. But I suspect that this browser doesn't use Mosaic Core. It confines each site to a closed environment, which greatly improves the security and stability of the system. Even if there is a program error on a certain web page. It doesn't crash the entire browser, but only needs to end a process. ”

"Multi-process architecture." Mark. Anderson took a deep breath and exclaimed.

"Yes, there's a lot more to discover." The team leader pointed to the second half of the document and said, "For example, here, the DNS read-ahead function. During the user's idle internet time, the browser reads the IP addresses of hyperlinks in the web page in advance, thus increasing the opening speed of each link by one or two seconds.

And this, although the six-ear browser does not support many Netscape browser-specific tags, its support for W3C standards is very strict......"

Mark. It took Anderson an hour to read the test leader's summary. He closed the folder and sighed, "Thankfully, we went one step ahead and captured the browser market first." Otherwise, I'm afraid Netscape Browser won't be its opponent. It's a pity that now we have become a general trend, as long as the six-ear browser can't open the market, no matter how good it is, it's in vain. You'll have to take the time to digest it and add it to the next version of Netscape. ”

"I know." The group leader nodded slightly.

"How's the editor going?" Zhou Shuo raised his head, looked at Shao Shiming with a happy face, and asked with feeling.

"It's over, all the bugs found so far have been patched, at least there is no problem with using it." Shao Shiming put a floppy disk on his desk and said as if to take credit.

"That's good, let the publicity department arrange the press conference immediately." Zhou Shuo nodded, picked up the floppy disk and put it into the floppy drive.

After a rattling sound from the floppy drive, a piece of software was read out of the computer.

“SixearsEdit.” Zhou Shuo read it gently, this so-called six-ear editor is actually a web page creation tool. The only difference from other web editors in 1995 is that it offers a WYSIWYG editing feature.

Speaking of which, this is thanks to the fact that the six-ear browser is a client born out of the ERP system, in order to increase the development speed of the ERP system, he has long begun to develop this WYSIWYG web creation tool. It's just that the editing tools of the ERP system are more professional, and the six-ear editor provides more functions, so it was delayed until this time to complete its development.

Zhou Shuo looked up at Shao Shiming, who was still standing in front of him, and asked inexplicably, "What's the matter?" ”

Shao Shiming was slightly stunned by his question, and said, "This is not waiting for you to try it out and see if there is anything that needs to be improved." ”

Zhou Shuo smiled, waved his hand and said, "What advice can I make, this project has always been in charge of you, can I study more deeply than you?" Leave me alone, just go post. ”

Shao Shiming shook his head and said stubbornly: "You better take a look, there are a lot of your thoughts here, I can't rest assured if I don't take a look." ”

Zhou Shuo couldn't help but bow his head and reflect on it when he heard this, it seems that he has been meddling too much all along, which has made developers dependent. He remembered this lesson in his heart, and said with tears and laughter: "Okay, I still can't believe in your ability?" If you say it's okay, that's no problem. Time waits for no one, so go ahead and plan the release of the software. ”

"Is it really okay?" Shao Shiming asked with some waver.

"Old classmate!" Zhou Shuo sighed and said, "Our career is not small now, you will definitely have to be in charge in the future, you can't let me make up your mind about everything, right?" ”

"Then ......" Shao Shiming gritted his teeth and nodded vigorously: "I'll arrange the software release, you see!" ”

"Waiting for your good news!" Zhou Shuo nodded sincerely, and watched Shao Shiming turn around and leave.

Looking at the development of computers, it is not difficult to find that the general trend of its history is openness and compatibility, and the power of this rule is vast, and those who go along with it prosper and those who go against it perish.

With its open hardware platform, Intel has become the chip hegemon in one fell swoop. Apple, on the other hand, produced the first generation of personal computers, but it was quickly replaced because its system was not open. The great development of personal computers is inseparable from the rise of compatible computers. Microsoft's success is due to the countless DOS platform program developers standing behind it.

The success of the Internet is also based on the compatibility of standards and the openness of content.

In the history of computing, there has never been a single company that has been able to dominate the world alone. Only the more people who join a system, the more powerful it will be.

Netscape is indeed a strong company, and Netscape Navigator has a 90% market share in the entire United States. Websites in the United States are all made to adapt to the Netscape browser. In this market, no one can beat him head-on. Of course, this is in addition to Microsoft, which has a maximum market capitalization of $300 billion.

It's a pity that Liuer Software is not Microsoft, and it has neither a market value of 300 billion yuan, nor a system that monopolizes the entire desktop computer operating system market. In the face of Netscape's ironclad view of the browser market, how can we break out of the encirclement?

It's still the same old saying, mobilize the masses and the countryside to surround the city.

This was 1995, and the Internet was still a baby. All the websites in the world combined, there are only more than 23,000.

Since it can't replace the Netscape browser market, it's better to create a six-ear browser market. (To be continued......)