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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (22162)12/15/1998 8:24:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
What you and Chaz are missing is that that low level driver was a major selling point in Trumpet
software's primary application (actually, it was the only reason their dialer and interface sold at
all). I bought/downloaded a copy and so did many net neophytes in 1994. The integration of this
"driver" killed Trumpets app business. This integration was advantageous to the end user, but
deadly to Trumpet.

Judging from your response, I don't think you understand the point I was trying to make. The point is that, given the nature of Winsock being a low-level device driver, there are technical performance advantages to integrating it into the OS. This is not the case with browsers. There are no technical advantages to integrating it. The code will not be any faster or better by doing so.

If there is no advantage to integration, why is IE so much more functional than Nav?

Any functional advantages that IE has over Nav are not due to integration.
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