Why don't we all chip in and Raise 100 zillion dollars to buy Gates out then we could
correct the MS Mess.
<Grin>.
Michael Gratton wrote:
>
> Carlfish wrote:
>
> >
> > W3C DOM was written by a standards body. The standard is several years
> > old, and has been largely ignored by everyone but the Mozilla project,
> > whose browser is still in beta.
>
> DOM Level 1 was based on the DOM of the prevalent browsers at the time -
> Navigator and IE. Also, Microsoft helped create the stanard. Then after
> all that, they choose to implement only a part of it. It's bizzare.
>
> > IE DOM is a de facto standard that has been in full release-quality
> > software for a long time, and that software has a 90% of the users out
> > there.
> >
>
> [insert stanard remark about 10% of the people on the 'Net is still a
> *huge* number of people, and that *everyone* would be better off if the
> all browsers implemented the standard here]
>
> <rant>
> But hey, how hard would it be for Microsoft to implement even DOM Level
> 1 properly? I mean, they don't even have the Node.*_NODE consts! It
> would take them literally 60 seconds to add them in and would be
> guaranteed to not break a single thing. *I've* written a complete Java
> DOM implementation in a day or two![0]
>
> The only reason Microsoft don't implement the standards fully is
> political. They're being petulant; they don't want to play nicely
> because they can use their market advantage to lock people in to using
> their software.
>
> I personally think Microsoft should be taken to task for not getting off
> their slack, self-centered arses and produce a browser that supports
> basic stanards, and hearby challenge them to do it in less time than I took!
> </rant>
>
> Mike.
>
> [0] - it sucked; it was slow and bloaty because I needed it written
> fast, but it was complete.
>
> --
> ? Mike Gratton - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ! Leader in leachate production and transmission since 1976.
> > http://web.vee.net/
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