Linked by Adam S on Fri 11th Jul 2008 04:37 UTC, submitted by peskypescado
A recent post about Firefox and my general view of corporations and organizations has caused a bit of a stir. It even caught the attention of Asa Dotzler. He said "It's really hard for me to believe that either [Microsoft or Adobe] have the free and open Web at heart when they're actively subverting it with closed technologies like Flash and Silverlight." But are they really subverting it? Where exactly is the line between serving the consumer and subverting the web? I think the W3C should share in this blame.
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The W3C is an open body. Microsoft are in this body of members, yet don't generally contribute at all. The same as with Microsoft being in the OASIS group.
If other people have other agendas, they are going to go off and do them, regardless of what the W3C are up to.
Microsoft and Adobe are driven by money and the W3C is not. I cannot see placing the blame on the W3C for being mentally slow as useful when the two melodramatic villians are clearly in the room with you.
It's lack of uptake of W3C standards, because of IE. No other browser, just IE. Browsers can do incredible things now, but people are still coding for IE6 and missing out on all the flash-negating technology available and ripe for the picking.