Aaron, about browsers and HTML, you wrote,
> What we are looking at here is simply market forces at work. When you > have a whole 2 browsers accounting for 99% of the world's user base, > then those two browsers effectively define the standard between them. I believe they were both trying to destroy it in favour of their own flavour of proprietery HTML. Much of the mess that HTML is in must IMO be because the two companies were each trying to wrest control of the standard for themselves. In either case it would have resulted in a commercial monopoly, the mess is the least bad alternative. In the haloween papers M$ appear to be prepared to abuse standards, and their market share, in this way in order to create a de-facto standard which is inaccessable to competitors and opensource projects. This list is way not the right place to preach about this, but these factors inform my decision to support strict implementation of standards in James unless there is a *very* good reason for providing a *documented* alternative. d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
