Randall Vlahos
04-13-2000, 03:13 PM
When it comes to large corporations like Microsoft the priorities run something
like this:
1. Marketing warfare
2. Marketing warfare
3. Marketing warfare
4. Standards
5. Technology
Microsoft excels at the first 3. Standards are merely a useful tool in their
marketing arsenal. Someone posted about how Microsoft "gave us CSS" - then
why don't they
support their "own" standard? Simply because Netscape now does. (same goes
for DOM1) They'd rather
make sure Netscape is down for the count - at the expense of the World wide
web. (NOT intranets)
I cannot understand all the posts implying that w3c standards are somehow
anti-progress? If we had
standards compliance for css-p and Dom2 there'd be practically no limits
to what one could do with the
browser - not just for an intranet but for millions of users on the web.
But I'm not holding my breath.
like this:
1. Marketing warfare
2. Marketing warfare
3. Marketing warfare
4. Standards
5. Technology
Microsoft excels at the first 3. Standards are merely a useful tool in their
marketing arsenal. Someone posted about how Microsoft "gave us CSS" - then
why don't they
support their "own" standard? Simply because Netscape now does. (same goes
for DOM1) They'd rather
make sure Netscape is down for the count - at the expense of the World wide
web. (NOT intranets)
I cannot understand all the posts implying that w3c standards are somehow
anti-progress? If we had
standards compliance for css-p and Dom2 there'd be practically no limits
to what one could do with the
browser - not just for an intranet but for millions of users on the web.
But I'm not holding my breath.