Gervase Markham wrote: >>Bingo! Being a stickler for the standards only works AFTER your product has >>become the de facto standard. >> > > > Microsoft is currently as close as you'll get to a de facto standard, > and I don't see them becoming sticklers for standards. > > If Mozilla implements proprietary browser extensions, then we are in a > much _worse_ position. Currently we can say: > > "We implement the W3C standards, which are how things should work. > Program to those, and we will cope fine." > > Otherwise, we'd be saying "We implement W3C stuff, and layers, and IE's > proprietary DOM (although not as well as IE does) because we think that > Microsoft controls web standards and not the W3C. Write whatever rubbish > you like and we'll try and keep up as Microsoft 'innovates'." > > Gerv > >
I like that last paragraph and unless you copyright your writings I AM going to plagiarize or until I'm caught!!! :-D -- Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
