Future for Web Standards Pondered

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."

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Be sure to test it well first. Many people have been saying v. good things about Mandrake, but even the last version I tried had QA problems (of course it was an RC rather than a release version, but I was surprise). OTOH, Fedora seems pretty sound (a late version of Core 1) but has a limited number of applications available. Still, it had OpenOffice.org and Mozilla, and several others ... so it probably had enough.

OTOH, if you choose Fedora, you may want to tinker with the screen background, so it isn't so dark. (Easy enough to do, of course, but I do wonder at their esthetic sensibilities.)

I don't know from what distance you are offering support, but you could do worse than to choose either Red Hat 8.2 (or whatever it was that came before 9). Either that, or Libranet Debian. The Red Hat is probably more stable, and should be patched to a fair-thee-well by now. It's getting a bit long in the tooth, but that's not really a problem for the features I see those people as needing. OTOH, the Libranet Debian is a bit newer, and easy to keep current. But if you do so, well, perhaps you'll better comment out everything but the security locations from /etc/apt/sources.list . It isn't the stable tree we're talking about here, and automatic upgrades will occasionally break things. (This way you can upgrade their systems whenever you happen to visit...and not get called in the middle of a busy week.)

Everything has problems. You just choose the selection that pleases you the most.