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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2007-01-18
I'm not going to argue your points because I don't know that much about the W3C as an organization, but here's where we are today.
I can, with some minor exceptions, build a standard website that will work the same in Firefox/Mozilla, Opera, Safari, KDE, etc., but it will be a mess in IE 6 and 7 (version 8 is a different story). I can build a site that works in IE (excluding version 8) and it won't work in any of the other browsers.
My conclusion. While maybe IE didn't create the problem they sure as hell haven't done much to solve it either. Maybe the W3C's recommendation aren't all that great, but it seems like every other popular browser is able to support them. So why is Microsoft unable to?
As A side note. I have been using version 8 of IE and frankly it's a much more compliant browser. Even though it's still a beta program it seems to work fairly good. However, sites that work in IE 7 or older don't work in version 8 without turning on the IE 7 mode. That's saying a lot I think.