{"id":292,"date":"2007-03-10T15:05:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T23:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2007-03-10T15:05:31","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T23:05:31","slug":"overheard%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Overheard\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keshet-tv.com\/Program.aspx?ProgID=3597\">drama mini-series<\/a> on Israel&#8217;s commercial TV channel:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What browser are you using? Why don&#8217;t you use Firefox? I can download it for you in a second.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine hearing a reference like that on prime-time television even a year ago. I&#8217;m not sure exactly when Firefox became part of the mainstream, but I noticed it first in the reviews of Firefox 2 last autumn. The point of view of most of the articles was a comparison between IE7 and FF2 on a level playing field, and I felt that this was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\">our<\/a> real achievement. It doesn&#8217;t really matter which one got the higher rating in any particular review, or what percentage of users Firefox has reached, but some time in the last twelve months we achieved a shift in perception and stopped being a niche browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 in a drama mini-series on Israel&#8217;s commercial TV channel: What browser are you using? Why don&#8217;t you use Firefox? I can download it for you in a second. I can&#8217;t imagine hearing a reference like that on prime-time television even a year ago. I&#8217;m not sure exactly when Firefox became part of the mainstream, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}