My take on this is: most of the people surfing the web who are concerned
about standard complience have already dumped IE for another browser
with better standards and know how to find these browsers. The average
"non techinical geek" cares little about standards when choosing a
browser, and might even be turned off if this is mentioned. This group
chooses their browser becuase they find it easier to work with
bookmarks, they like the toy story theme, ect. More people will use the
browser because it has the toy story theme than because it has W3C
standards complience. By the start of the school year, one kid will ask
his friend, did you see that browser with the toy story colourful skin,
and by the second week of the start of school hundreds of thousands of
copies of Netscape 6.1p will have been downloaded. This is a good way to
get the browser out there. Something standards complience could never do
(in terms of getting the browser onto the computer. Hopefully the
parents will see this browser that the kid downloaded, like it and begin
to use it as well.
Way to go Netscape. Using a theme as bait to get the browser onto the
computer desktop! Genius!
BTW standards are more important than themes but don't tell the kids this.
Henri Sivonen wrote:
>Interestingly, they don't mention standards compliance as a reason for
>switching from 4.x to 6.1. They do mention various messaging features
>and themes--but new browser features don't get bullet points.
>
>They could have put something like "Netscape 6.1 complies to
>state-of-the-art Web standards providing you a richer browsing
>experience." on the "Why upgrade?" list.
>
