Quantem Web Browser
The
Qquantem Web Browser would be much like the standard web browsers
currently out there, but its primary goal is to be the fastest and
most optimized web browser on the market. This means that there won't
be quite as many options to users as, perhaps, Mozilla's Firefox of
Google's Chrome – the two most popular web browsers today. However,
it would include almost all the features that these major browsers
have; these would include bookmarks, cookies, HTML/CSS and javascript
interpretation (displaying text and images and allowing the user to
interact with the web browser), download any file, maintain a
history, have various settings that allow one to configure the font,
limiting the amount of cache and other web configuration settings.
The main difference is that this web browser would allow blobs that
developers would be able to put in web sites. The blobs would allow
the developer(s) of the web sites to add programming blobs using the
programming language C++. There would probably be a security risk
that comes along with these blobs, but if this is able to be
monitored in some way, then this would allow for an entirely new
market. These blobs would effectively allow web site developers to
use code snippets to make their website super fast and do things that
web browsers had not been able to do before. The web browser would
also feature add-ons similar to Firefox, though this would probably
not be available in the first release. The Quantem Web Browser would
be released as open source software so as to draw from the brightest
minds.
Opportunity:
The
opportunity for this web browser stems from its speed and the C++
blobs. While the Quantem browser wouldn't be as configurable as
Firefox or Chrome, it would be much faster. This is because it would
be designed with optimization and security at the forefront (and no
so much user experience – although that will also be a significant
driver especially towards the end). Every single interaction will try
to happen as quickly as possible. Currently, it is uncertain if
add-ons will be available (such as in Firefox), but if so, there
would need to be some way to test the speed and security of these
add-ons in the Quantem browser. Testing the speed and security would
be another aspect that this web browser would offer so that the
developers of the add-ons would feel assured that their add-on is
secure and fast, and the users would feel the same.
The
main reason that there is so much opportunity for this web browser is
that web browsers have remained pretty much stagnant for too long.
While there have been some minor updates and a lot of bug fixes,
there haven't really been that many break through ideas. This was
somewhat counterbalanced by the thought of add-ons. The developers
seemed to have taken the easy way out. However, if we study
economics, we know that businesses should follow the general trend of
S-curves, where there is an initial investment phase, a growth phase
and finally a decline, whereupon the cycle should
restart if the company is innovative. While the window of opportunity
won't be very long, the major players in the business don't seem to
be following this trend, so it seems like there would be an easy
opportunity in the market to come in and capture this new piece of
the market with a new and innovative web browser.
Innovation:
This web browser wouldn't be that innovative because, although it would be an entirely new and sleek web browser, it would essentially . The only innovations are those listed in the above section. The web browser would very much resemble Firefox but would be much more optimized. From user feedback, I learned that web browsers seem to be fast (as one would expect) but even common users think that they can be even faster. This is the area that I am exploring. I am trying to find ways to optimize browsers (i.e. with C++ blobs and optimizations in every way possible) so that the Quantem browser will be ass fast as it can be. The second innovative measure comes with the C++ blobs. There will be things that website developers can now do that they absolutely would not have been able to do before. There will be an entirely new way to develop websites because of this.I have thought quite a bit about the C++ blobs. You would include a file inside of the HTML for the website (the part that gets interpreted as the web content and includes the CSS style sheets and javascript files) which would afford much greater control over what the developers can provide to the viewers and also make things much faster. It would really be an innovative feat, but the biggest fear that I have would be the security of these blobs.
