"Opera Software filed a complaint with the European Commission yesterday which is aimed at giving consumers a genuine choice of Web browsers. The complaint describes how Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the Windows operating system and by hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards. Opera has requested the Commission to take the necessary actions to compel Microsoft to give consumers a real choice and to support open Web standards in Internet Explorer."
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Member since:2005-06-29
"Which standards they should support then?
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.h...
I mean it seems that every month or so we have new standards".
Nope. Every 5-10 years there are updates to the standards. That's it.
"Not even Opera meets all standards why should IE".
Opera passes the ACID test. So should IE.
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/acid/
http://www.webstandards.org/2006/07/20/acid2-and-opera-9-clarificat...
"Besides shouldn't the responsible of using standards be in Website creators?"
Absolutely. As long as the browser supports web standards. Otherwise the page will be broken.
"And who should decide which standards are required, I hope not W3C".
Yes, the W3C, of which Microsoft takes part.
"Since there is no standard called Internet or WWW, whole thing of saying that you should support open standards is pretty weak".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium
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2006-01-12
Which standards they should support then? I mean it seems that every month or so we have new standards. Not even Opera meets all standards why should IE. Besides shouldn't the responsible of using standards be in Website creators? And who should decide which standards are required, I hope not W3C.
Since there is no standard called Internet or WWW, whole thing of saying that you should support open standards is pretty weak.
"This is a huge problem for companies like Opera whose business depends on these standards being standard."
Smells like crap to me. Biggest problem for Opera is that web browser is free nowdays and Thank God for that.