And it came to pass that JTK wrote:
> 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.
Put up or shut up: list a validated page that fails to display
in Mozilla.
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?
Called overseas recently? Ever? Know why you can? Standards.
Also, your metaphor isn't accurate; it's MicroSoft that wants
everyone to speak its native dialrct, not the standards
compliant browsers like Mozilla.
The best part of JTK ran down his mama's thing. I don't know
why he's allowed to post here - all he does is denigrate the
product and the Organizations goals.
--
}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
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