Think the browser wars are a thing of the past? Well, Harry Fuecks doesn't. According to his new posting on Dynamically Typed, he thinks that things have just taken a different fork in the road:

This is a fundamentally different attack from that of the browser wars, round 1. Instead of fighting for control, the new browser war is a fight for the survival of the web itself. In this new war, the eye candy offered by new and polished browsers is a necessary but insufficient response to the stonewalling of Internet Explorer as a precursor to Longhorn. It's the presence of standardized data in web content - whether current standards such as XHTML or some yet-unknown future standards, perhaps based on XUL -guaranteeing that the web will remain a global commons, an information highway, and a free marketplace. The alternative is a corporate Diaspora and a tollway.

The posting goes on to talk more about the suggestions from this article from Nigel McFarlane and how the suggestions therein can really effect the online community as we know it. After all, what tool is used more than a web browser - wouldn't you want a quaility tool that worked with other tools out there? Microsoft seems to think not...