On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:36:24 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> Stewart Gordon wrote: >>> Indeed, here are just a few things I hate to bits about CSS: >> >> Sure, but we're kind of stuck with it. While we can invent a new >> programming language, I don't think that inventing a new browser markup >> language is going to get any traction without convincing Microsoft, >> Google, and Apple to all get on board. > > Microsoft would never know it existed. > > Goggle would steal it and re-invent a crappy version of it. > > Apple would put a note in their developer-license-agreement prohibiting > it. > > Sun would release a whitepaper that attempted to explain why it wasn't > needed, but in their attempt they would accidentally make it clear it > was a good idea after all. > > Oracle would create a not-terrible-but-not-great version of it and have > their salesmen spend a couple million each convincing middle and upper > managers to pay twenty million for it each. Most of them would fall for > it. > > Sony would form a committee to investigate the feasibility of > introducing DRM capabilities into it. > > No one would ever notice if IBM did or didn't do anything with it. > > Hobbyist developers would flock towards a newly-created alternate > version that seemed simpler at first glance, but was much slower and > really just made it easier to introduce subtle bugs. > > W3C would form a committee to standardize it. Their early > recommendations would combine the worst aspects of all the various > versions. The final draft would be nearly identical to the early drafts, > but wouldn't be finalized until the original committee's grandchildren > were in retirement facilities. > > Adobe would create a mediocre, bloated, yet passable > child-window-fiesta-of-an-app to deal with it and charge hundreds for > it. It would be enormously popular. > > The people formerly from JASC would create a great alternative to > Adobe's offering at a reasonable price, and after no one bought it they > would kill it off by selling the rights to the dying carcass of some > formerly-relevant corporation. > > Corel...ah ha ha ha ha! Corel...That's a joke that doesn't need a > punchline. > > Hasbro Interactive would buy the rights to one of the older versions, > and sue any individuals and small businesses that had anything similar. > Then they would sell the rights. > > Steve Yegge will have something to say about it, but no one will know or > care what it is because by the time they finish reading his post the > universe will have ended. But he'll still maintain that his long-winded > approach was "good marketing".
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