WWW Inventor On Microsoft's Browser Tricks

Posted by timothy on Monday October 29, 2001 @02:01AM from the creators'-rights dept.

Unipuma writes: "Tim Berners-Lee gives his views in an interview with Silicon Valley about the latests blocking of the MSN website for most other than Internet Explorer browsers. 'I have fought since the beginning of the Web for its openness: that anyone can read Web pages with any software running on any hardware. This is what makes the Web itself. This is the environment into which so many people have invested so much energy and creativity. When I see any Web site claim to be only readable using particular hardware or software, I cringe - they are pining for the bad old days when each piece of information need a different program to access it.'"

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coincidence..? by kipple · 2001-10-29 02:40 · Score: 3, Funny

let me see if I got it right: am I wrong, or that happened in the same period of time that XP was launched?

No, I'm not thinking what I'm thinking, right?

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Really? by Slad · 2001-10-29 03:16 · Score: 3, Funny

I thought Al Gore invented the internet.

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Re:It's the right of other browsers to compete by KlomDark · 2001-10-29 04:20 · Score: 3, Funny

"Noone's forcing anyone to serf to MSN, and noone's forcing you to view their page, despite your browser.... "
Serf: (n) Slave, indentured servant.
Hmmm... Interesting choice in spelling there...