Tmax Scoutor: Bridge the Web
Web Browser Market
- Worldwide market share (Source: NetApplication, June 2009)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer (66%)
- Mozilla Firefox (22%)
- Mac Safari (8%)
- Google Chrome (2%)
- Opera (1%)
- Others (1%)
- Korean market share (Source: InternetTrend, June 2009)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer (98%)
- Others (2%)
- Why is only IE widely used in Korea?
Website Not Supporting [Non-IE Browsers]
What The Market Share Means?
- Worldwide
- Support of Web standard—Support of various OSes and systems—Increase of conforming websites
- Era of Web 2.0
- Keeping the rights of choice, increasing accessibility
- Creation of new market
- Korea
- Ignorance of Web standard, excessive use of ActiveX—No support of non-IE browsers
- Vendor lock-in
- Browser monopoly makes OS monopoly
- No chance to create new market
- Intangible restriction on industries outside IE
Scoutor As A Bridge
- Ideal: exile from vendor lock-in, creation of new market
- Reality: semi-mandatory support of ActiveX, the cost of adopting Web standard, usability
- Trade-off: support of both domestic [Korean] environment and [many] Web standards
Web Browser
[Diagram omitted]
Browser Engine Supporting Web Standards
- Support of current standards including HTML 4 and CSS 2.1
- Support of future standards including HTML 5 and CSS 3
- High-performance Javascript execution via JIT compiler
- Passing Acid1 and Acid2 test
- Almost passing Acid3 test
Result Of Acid3 Test
[Table omitted, Scoutor 1.0 scores 99 out of 100]
Browser Engine Supporting Domestic [Web] Environment
- Friendly UI for existing Web browser users
- Support of IE-specific DOM API
- Support of IE-specific Javascript and [browser] objects
- User-Agent disguised as IE
- Support of download, installation and execution of ActiveX [controls]
- Support of Javascript features required by ActiveX [controls]
Support For ActiveX
[Diagram omitted, showing Webcore and ActiveX bridge plugin communicating via NPAPI]
Javascript Compatibilty
[Diagram omitted, showing heavily modified Webkit engine]
Tmax Scoutor
- Bridge between worldwide trend and reality in Korea
- Will help upgrading Korean IT industry
