Geoff wrote: > [snip]
> Thanks both to Jonas and to you Albert. As I said, I was looking for an > explanation, not making a criticism, and that holds good. Even so, and > speaking as someone who has invested much time and effort in ridding his > business of M$ products, I am left wondering about the ability of the open > source community to win this particular standards battle. Two things: 1. Regardless of what people are telling you, it's not a "standards battle". Mozilla is so poorly written that it simply dies on most pages regardless of their "standardness", and the further outside the lines the page is, the wackier Mozilla gets. 2. I want all nations of the world to speak English. But not just English, the specific dialect of English that I do. That way I don't have to go to the trouble of learning all those other languages, nor the idioms of all the different English dialects. How much chance do you think I have of getting that to happen? Right, about as much chance as Mozilla has of getting a DTD on everybody's pages. Including their own home page. > I send emails > complaining to the webmasters of sites that require Ie, and if I > understood the technicalities better, I would complain about any > non-standards-compliant features I detected. I just don't get the > impression that we are having any impact at all here, Mozilla is having exactly zero impact here. Why? Nobody uses it. Nobody's posted numbers recently, I'd love to see how low the percentage is these days. > and it is very > depressing when one gives demonstrations of open source systems only to > find that the browsers are (in my personal and maybe untypical Very typical. > experience), very likely to choke on many of the sites that I need to take > people to. > > Regards, > > Geoff
