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Future for Web Standards Pondered

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the agreeing-is-hard dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With the next version of Internet Explorer tied to the release of longhorn, and still years off, what hope is there for innovation in CSS, SVG, XHTML and other web standards? Is the future of the web similarly tied to Internet Explorer and Longhorn? This article ponders this gloomy future, and sees a ray or two of hope."

2 of 357 comments (clear)

  1. Re:WTF??? by Skapare · · Score: 4, Funny

    Go back to old standards if you want. You'll be going there without the bulk of the world, the clueless people, the corporate CEOs, the spammers, the ...

    ... oh wait

    ... wait for me!

    --
    now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
  2. Re:firebird by Cromac · · Score: 3, Funny
    Yeah right. Do you really hope that happens? Do you also hope that you'll win lotto and shack up with a nympho super model who digs threesomes? They have about the same chance of happening. Actually the second is far more likely.

    Micrsoft IS NOT going to use Mozilla, any hope that they will is just delusional.