Another technology battle, now between popular web browsers.

JavaScript, which lets developers create everything from basic Web site menus to online spreadsheet applications, was born in the mid-1990s when Microsoft's Internet Explorer challenged the incumbent browser, Netscape's Navigator. IE won that war, but now it faces its own challenge from the heir to the Navigator throne, Mozilla's Firefox, along with upstarts including Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari, and Opera.

I wonder, though, whether this whole issue is at all relevant in the world of mobile devices and twitter feeds. Internet browser is just a tool that allows people interact with content, which has multiple components, including javascript. Today, mobile devices are much more limited in bandwidth, battery power, and media processing capabilities than in javascript performance. Most likely, mobile websites, aka the-cloud, will target a completely different set of users, than today's browsers are fighiting for.

Nevertheless, this topic will make a good case study for a "Battle of Technologies" exercise.