I think the reason for Peter's blog was to address our failure to deliver on
the ease-of-use front. Servers are a pain to set up, and clients can't
compete with MSN Messenger. This has less to do with standards adherance,
and more to do with making things simple and "slick". Compliance is
important, but it was just one of many requirements he listed.
I still think the 'slick' factor can be addressed in some measure by the certification system, though. For instance, look at all our recent XHTML-IM discussion. Look at things like avatars, which people take for granted on the other networks.
A certification for general standards compliance. A certification for advanced support. Stuff like that.
But I think you already heard all my arguments on this a couple of months ago. ;)
-- Rachel 'Sparks' Blackman -- sysadmin, developer, mad scientist "If it is not broken, give me five minutes to redesign it!"
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