Return of the WaSP

No_Weak_Heart writes "After a brief hiatus, the Web Standards Project (WaSP) has returned. Here's the story at Wired about this grassroots coalition which works to promote the adoption of web standards by authors, tool makers and in browsers. In a related vein, the Boston Globe has a comfy chat with Tim Berners-Lee, the guiding force behind many of those standards."

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bad news for Linux?

[tps12]

I am as much in favor of standards as the next Free Software fan, and I'll probably get modded down for saying this, but I'm going to anyway. I use Linux for all my mission-critical servers, and even my home boxen. Fuck, I even run Linux on my car's mp3 jukebox.

But I have to say, the WaSP project could mean trouble for Linux zealots like me. Mozilla has only just (as in hours ago) become release-caliber, and besides that, what does Linux have in the way of standards-compliant browsers? Konqueror crashes every 12 seconds and Opera is closed-source, commercial, and evil.

At the moment, IE is the only production-caliber standards-compliant browser on the market. And it don't run on Linux. Until we get Mozilla and Konqueror up to speed, we should try to gloss over this fact rather than bring the embarrassing standards-compliance issue to the fore.