I agree... it's 100% about the consumer as far as I'm concerned.... technical ideologies be damned.

For your FLV issues, you could have a look at Bizmodule's new Flash Video Gallery. I have it and the last update came with a desktop FLV video converter in addition to  the server-side item in the module. I haven't checked it out yet, but I read in the release notes that the desktop tool even uploads the clips in segments to the site. I'm not aware of what input formats it requires, but I'm sure it handles most seeing as that what it's supposed to do.

Rob

Actually, Netscape preceded IE and MS scrambled to update it's IE 3 browser (who names a first version product as 3.0?!?!) to v4.0 because NS was so much better at the time.

You can't blame FF for screwing things up. Browser choice is a good thing for consumers. Browsers not supporting a well documented (in most cases) WC3 standard is the problem here, and MS IE has been the most blameful browser on the market for NOT adhering to strict standards and guilty of trying to implement their own "standards" as well.

IE7 definitely has taken better steps towards standards compliance, but it's not completely there yet and may never be.

 As far as the add-ins are concerned...

If you spent a full development day on FF with the Firebug and WebDev Toolbar add-ins installed, I'd be willing to bet that 99% of you would never look at IE add-ins again.

My only "beef" with the add-ins in my list is that none of them work when you're in FireFox and using the IE engine to view content.

You are right, I stand corrected. Even though, by the time IE 1.0 came out, Netscape was releasing version Netscape 2.0.

It wasn't really until IE 4 and Netscape 4 came out that IE had finally caught up to NS, tecnologically speaking, IMO.

Netscape WAS Mosaic.

I actually have IE versions from the current IE7 back to IE 3.0 running on this machine.