Are There Too Many Standards?

CyNRG asks: "Lately, I've been reviewing the different programming and protocol standards in an effort to guide my career in the most fun and profitable direction. The proliferation of standards is astounding! Choosing which path to follow is more like a trip to Las Vegas. Standing at the craps table in Ceasar's Palace at 3:00 am: do I play the point? Big 6 or 8? Play the field? How about covering the hard ways? The world is using technology more and more, so I would expect more standards based on that fact. It seems like common knowledge, vis-a-vis Microsoft, that companies try to put forth 'standards' in an roll of the dice to make their 'standard' defacto. Are there too many standards?"

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Browser war is over

[hackstraw]

Browers have been around a long time, and everybody's got one. For the past 3 years or so, I've demanded that my browser support tabbed browsing, control over popup windows, and preferably a useful download manager. Everything else is something I can do with or without or may be nice, but not a necessary feature.

On OSX, I use Safari with the KDE KHTML backend driving it. Its OK. One really cool, but unnecessary thing is that I can right click on any words in this dialog box and check the spelling for it, obviously not a desired feature for most /.ers and editors :) I also have on my Mac, Camino a native frontend to mozilla's gecko backend, and firefox and mozilla. All of these satisfy my needs.

On Linux/Solaris and co, there's at least Galeon, Mozilla, and Konquerer. Oh, and every browser that I have mentioned is free.

So what is there to war about? Just surf the web with whatever you want, there's plenty of choices.

OT

[SnprBoB86]

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