In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Netscape Basher wrote: > Christopher Jahn typed: >> >> This group was established to create the World Wide Web in the >> first place. They did it by defining the standards that would >> allow software to be created that could use the standards to >> browse the internet. Without the standards set up by the W3c in >> the first place, there could be no WWW. > > False. It would of formed. No one group can claim to have founded the > world wide web.
One group can indeed claim to have done so, namely, CERN. See <URL:http://www.w3.org/History.html>. Furthermore, I'd contend that the WWW would not have developed without a framework of open standards for implementation: proprietary hypertext systems did exist, but have become a footnote to history, despite, in some cases, being more powerful than the open standard. (Where now is Hyper-G, for instance?) > >> >> This is why they are the recognized international organization >> that sets the standards for the WWW. > > Wrong. They are one of many groups that makes this claim. Such as? > It is > interesting that the mozilla.org site is non-w3c compliant. When it is, > let me know. > cc yourself to bug 89885 and you'll find out. >> >> >>>I have visited those sites many times, and i still have not >>>found when, where, how and why the standard was born. >> >> >> Look at the creation date of the Consortium. > > The w3c is irrelvant. Nothing but pro-Linux, MS hating folks. > <URL:http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List> "...Microsoft Corporation..." Furthermore, two Microsoft representatives are on the XHTML 1.0 authors list, and they have been and are taking an active part in the development of CSS. (For that matter, they were touting Mac IE 5.1 for its improved support of aforesaid W3C recommendations.) I like the little filip of "pro-Linux" in there; your world is a bit...dualist, I take it? -- Chris Hoess
