On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 17:20, Jason van Zyl wrote: > On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 16:12, Mark R. Diggory wrote: > > > However, by following a similar line of reasoning you could take for an > > analogy that IE is the predominate browser on the market, so what ever > > it defines as a DOM model or CSS implementation would be the standard, > > but yet, we all know this isn't true. > > I don't think that's a valid analogy as there is a standard for DOM/CSS > to which MS doesn't conform. In the case of Java repository tools there > is no standard. Prior to any spec being used the tool used most is > basically the spec. >
historically I'll speculate IE (and its DOM) probably existed before the w3c spec was established. > > Well, I would suspect (or at least hope) that Apache would be a driving > > force behind such an endeavor. > > I would imagine so. > > > -Mark -- Mark R. Diggory Software Developer - VDC Project Harvard MIT Data Center http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu
