On Oct 7, 2007, at 8:36 PM, Joseph Selbie wrote: > Aside from being highly unlikely to happen, aren't you in effect > advocating > that the OS developers become the arbiters of progress? Or worse > yet that > "forced government regulations" become the arbiters of progress?
I'm not advocating anything, other that saying that Target.com is getting sued over something they really shouldn't be getting sued over. And if they lose the lawsuit, having anyone who is not Apple or MS be the arbiters of progress will actually be worse since we can't even control the underlying technology in order to be the arbiters of anything. > I would much rather count on market forces and free-wheeling > innovation to > move software evolution forward -- even in the chaotic and messy > way it > tends to happen. And in that world, you've got Target.com getting sued. > What I think is much more likely to happen is that -- should the > courts in > fact decree that equal access must be granted to certain types of > publically > accessible websites, such as Target -- competition will increase > among the > readers for market share and they will begin to innovate and > improve rapidly > in response to the opportunity to increase their revenue. Unless that market is bigger than $100M USD, I seriously doubt that. I'd be surprised if that market was bigger than $10M USD. > We'll undoubtedly end up with the same messy, blurry, frustrating > mix of > standards and approaches that we have had with the browsers -- but > we'll end > up with some really great solutions that no standards body or > government > agency would ever have come up with. I highly doubt that. The accessibility problem is at least a thousand times more problematic than simply trying to render a proper box model with W3C standards inside a passive browser interaction model. Given how bad the browsers worked out in getting such simple standards up and running and still not being at 100% compliance... I'm not sure how anyone can be optimistic about the situation if left to evolve as everything else has. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] c. +1 408 306 6422 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Guidelines ............ http://beta.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://beta.ixda.org/help Unsubscribe ................ http://beta.ixda.org/unsubscribe Questions .................. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home ....................... http://beta.ixda.org
