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Mozilla Starts Work On XForms
AnamanFan writes "The Mozilla Foundation, with Novell and IBM, announced the formation to implement the W3C's XForms 1.0 Recommendation on the Mozilla platform. XForms is the forms module in XHTML 2, developed by the W3C. The project enables developers to deliver the type of next-generation, rich, portable web-based applications desired by corporate IT. Is this one step away from the corporate world's dependence on ActiveX? We can only hope."
Konquerer represents somewhere between fuck all and slightly more than fuck all of the market. It's not relevent.
Wow! What great business sense you have! Gee, I never realized how completely trivial it must be to just "screw the customer" and migrate to Mozilla, Linux, and everything good and open source!
Look, I'm all for Mozilla, Linux, and open source software, but sometimes preaching and serving are two entirely different things. The homeless, starving person on the street corner could care less what kind of philosophical bullshit about healthfoods and a "low-carb lifestyle" you want to talk about, but give them a week's worth of free burger coupons to McDonald's and they'll most certainly be grateful for your help.
Sometimes your "customer" doesn't want The Best Thing, they just want something that works NOW. IE and MS Windows for companies works NOW. Sell them on the benefits of open source software, Mozilla, and Linux LATER. I guarantee they'll listen to you more intently if you've already helped them out in the past, despite their past computing shortcomings.
And by the way, you are one of those Gnu/Linux hippie types who gives Linux users a bad name because of your rhetoric about everything Microsoft. It's true, Microsoft is insecure and dangerous to use in these days of the Internet and widespread computer virii, but the average computer user doesn't know that and sometimes doesn't even care. There are still plenty of reasons NOT to switch to Linux or Mozilla for many people, which while unfortunate, is their lot in life. I for one, am stuck using IE once in a while. Why? Because I HAVE TO! Mozilla won't work with certain things. Yes, it upsets me that some developers can't code for interoperability, but not everyone is at the same stage of uber-enlightment that you are.
Thank you, it felt good to flame you. You may now return to your regularly scheduled postings.
"I'm sure visitors would just LOVE to see a site error message 'I'm sorry, you must download Mozilla 8.0 to view this website.'"
And why the hell not? Actually, I wouldn't use exactly those words - I'd say something like "if this page renders incorrectly, you are probably using a Web browser that does not adhere to established open standards. Please consider one of the browsers below..."
It *is* a fight, and sometimes you have to take a swing.