Bill Power
04-15-2000, 12:33 PM
On the article "coded into a corner", I think MS is right to seek the best
functionality for their product. Waiting for standards today will dramatically
delay your time to market and cost you share. The W3C has become a political
fourm, with "experts" who openly support one platform over another, and who
are ofter MS Bashers. A lot of the current standards were in fact adopted
after the fact from technologies that worked.
As for cross platform compatibility, lets be real, it doesn't work and it's
not just one company that can be blamed. Microsoft has given us a platform
that we can write to that's pretty effective and will run in 90% of in the
wild machines. Why don't the others support the same functionality?
functionality for their product. Waiting for standards today will dramatically
delay your time to market and cost you share. The W3C has become a political
fourm, with "experts" who openly support one platform over another, and who
are ofter MS Bashers. A lot of the current standards were in fact adopted
after the fact from technologies that worked.
As for cross platform compatibility, lets be real, it doesn't work and it's
not just one company that can be blamed. Microsoft has given us a platform
that we can write to that's pretty effective and will run in 90% of in the
wild machines. Why don't the others support the same functionality?