Mozilla And Opera Team Up For Web Forms Standard

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 1, 2004 @12:56AM from the wonder-non-twins dept.

darthcamaro writes "According to an article running on Internetnews.com today, Mozilla and Opera have teamed up on a web standards proposal for Web Forms 2.0 to be presented at a W3C working group this week. One of the proposal's authors is quoted in the article as saying '... that if a backwards-compatible open-standards alternative isn't created first, then 10 years from now the de facto Web application standard will be Microsoft's Avalon and the .NET framework.'
Are Opera and Mozilla the new 'rebel alliance' in the fight against the Microsoft Empire? Should we call this chapter 'A New Hope'?"

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A New Hope by Finuvir · 2004-06-01 01:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Surely if this chapter is A New Hope the next would be Microsoft Strikes Back and then The Return of Netscape 4? I don't think any of us want that.

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1. Re:A New Hope by S.+Baldrick · 2004-06-01 01:17 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  And we especially don't want Jar-Jar Lynx.
2. Re:A New Hope by Njovich · 2004-06-01 01:38 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yes and Bill Gates would be the father of Linus. Yuck.
3. Re:A New Hope by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-01 02:17 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Hmmm, might be fitting for Opera.
  
  "This is not the style-sheet you are looking for."
Re:No, that would've been ... by Echnin · 2004-06-01 02:01 · Score: 2, Funny

"Birth of the W3C working group"? Nah. Doesn't sound very catchy.

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