Al Sparber wrote:
From: "Michael Horowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Personally I'm looking forward to buying computers with virtually
nothing pre installed. I always end up deleting most of it anyway.
Alot of people start off by reinstalling the OS to get rid of all
the junk the PC manufacturers put on.
I buy the boxes empty, and install what I want/need from scratch. Since
I happen to prefer MS-OSes for the time being, it would be nice if I
could get clean ones.
Indeed. But to bring it on-topic, I doubt very highly that Opera's
motivation is standards.
Opera's motivation is unimportant. I don't think they'll get much out of
it anyway - apart from maybe a more leveled and standard-based
playing-field.
How "the guardians" of a relatively large market like the EU looks at,
and reacts to, how the players behave, may be of some importance.
Whatever the outcome, I doubt if it'll only affect us in the EU area -
and we Norwegians are not even regular EU-members :-)
If the unimaginable happened and MSIE8 were as standards-comformant
as Opera, it would also be stronger in the marketplace. The best
thing that could happen for standards-oriented web developers would
be that all computers shipped with a single, extensible browser
appliance with a standards-based module, managed and updated by an
independent party, being the chief extension.
If it was delivered with an excellent standard-support module and were
truly extensible beyond that, then we would indeed have something very
near what could be described as the ideal platform for web development -
for a short while. I'm wondering how an independent party should be
defined and organized though, and how such a party should secure
progress. I do seriously doubt if such a solution would stay "single"
for long, and even that it is a good idea.
It's better that the industry wake up now because eventually someone
is going to figure out that a browser is an appliance and the only
thing it should be doing is supporting standards and sitting
unobtrusively in the background acting as a window to the web.
Guess it would have to support plenty of non-standards too, since such a
small segment of the web is following standards - any standards. Leaving
out the larger part of the web because it isn't "standard", isn't a
valid option. Standardizing non-standard rendering and behavior as part
of the main module, would be necessary, but we may get there too - one
day - before someone break too far out of the standards and the whole
"game" starts all over again.
regards
Georg
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