It's like if you said: "As long as my fridge is full of what I like, it's none of my business if some people are dying hungry." Well, I'm glad for you if you have all what you need; and I'm really not jealous of what is in your fridge. But I DO CARE that you don't have filled it by deprivating other people !
Your point of view is unacceptable as it is related to a medium (the Web) S H A R E D by people World Wide !!!
Why is it that there are so many incompatibilities problems on the Web ? Why is there often so poor support for standards like HTML 4.01, CSS 1 and 2, XHTML, DOM, SMIL, PNG,... ? All of these standards are FREE, OPEN and DOCUMENTED !
Don't you have access to IE source code ? Can't you contribute to write code, report/fix bugs, suggest improvements,... to make IE the ideal browser, fully compliant to the standards Microsoft (amongst others) has contributed to set up (Microsoft is a member of the W3C), and which EVERYONE can use ?
Or maybe you don't care ? Maybe you are more interested in grabbing stock shares from the WWW ? Don't you know that EVEN the commercial activities on the Web are injured by this mess ?
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... also gives many reasons on why standards compliance in Web browsers is important to preserve the independence and accessibility of the WWW.
>>> http://www.webstandards.org/
Just because Microsoft have the market share does not mean they own the internet.
Exactly !
We don't want feudalism on OUR Web, do we ?
"Sorry Bill, Internet is not for sale !"
Narrow mind hurts it too !
... ? All of these standards are FREE, OPEN and DOCUMENTED !
... to make IE the ideal browser, fully compliant to the standards Microsoft (amongst others) has contributed to set up (Microsoft is a member of the W3C), and which EVERYONE can use ?
It's like if you said: "As long as my fridge is full of what I like, it's none of my business if some people are dying hungry." Well, I'm glad for you if you have all what you need; and I'm really not jealous of what is in your fridge.
But I DO CARE that you don't have filled it by deprivating other people !
Your point of view is unacceptable as it is related to a medium (the Web) S H A R E D by people World Wide !!!
Why is it that there are so many incompatibilities problems on the Web ? Why is there often so poor support for standards like HTML 4.01, CSS 1 and 2, XHTML, DOM, SMIL, PNG,
Don't you have access to IE source code ? Can't you contribute to write code, report/fix bugs, suggest improvements,
Or maybe you don't care ? Maybe you are more interested in grabbing stock shares from the WWW ?
Don't you know that EVEN the commercial activities on the Web are injured by this mess ?
(See also: Web Alert !)