Yes, wouldn't it be nice if we all learned to live together...
Any collection of humans is bound to be generate conflict. "Delivering
shareholder value" is the biggest progenitor of evil in the world
today, however, and causes far more damage to the world than a few
geeks ever could.
Anyway...I'm not suggesting that private companies shouldn't develop
cool stuff that's not based on a standard. I'm just suggesting where a
standard *does* exist, and is worth supporting it ought to be
supported. SVG could have formed the core of both flex and
sliverlight, but the desire to dominate the market with a proprietary
solution is a powerful motivator.
Which is not to say I don't like Flex and the cool dudes at Adobe and
Macromedia who made it possible. I'm just not starry-eyed about
corporate motivations, and while I'm disappointed I can't leverage the
flash player on the iphone, I'm somewhat more positive towards Apple
because they are supporting SVG on there instead.
Anyway, I'll shut up now. :-)
Guy
On 27/01/2009, at 11:46 AM, Doug McCune wrote:
> I think you are seriously misguided about the role of standards.
HTML seems to have worked pretty well. I don't see MS or Adobe
trying to do their own versions of that (though they may screw up
their support for it at times, yes IE is dreadful)...
And ECMAScript 4 worked out just grand didn't it? If Adobe waits for
all the standards zealot children to stop their infighting and crying
just to improve ActionScript or Flash, that's the day I learn a new
technology.
Doug
