No, it totally sucks. Developers hated the browser wars of the late 90s with MSIE & Netscape. We couldn't wait till there was a clear winner, or a single standard.
The development of web sites/apps was incredibly poor because of cross-compatibility issues from variant standards and was incredibly frustrating for developers. Developers do not want to go through that again, and we will once again end up with some inconsistent poor sites/apps again from either disgruntled developers or from developers leaving the web sector forcing in inexperienced developers. FireFox could have made this transition easier by adding some enhancements, but still rendering like MSIE. Personally, many developers I know are just hoping the IE7 version will take care of its admittedly many issues, and push FireFox back down in the hole. FireFox is good only for getting MS not to be lazy about its dominance. Open Source soldiers may not be fans of MS not adhering perfectly to the W3C standards, but in some ways, the IE dominance reset those standards, and FireFox should have accepted some of those.
As for forcing my beliefs on others like a Jehova Witness peddlar the way the open-source community does, I don't think so. I believe in the use of Proprietary code using open standards, and am rather against most open source and the lack of standardization. Though, I don't go standing on soap boxes pleading with the community to stop open source developement!
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No, it totally sucks. Developers hated the browser wars of the late 90s with MSIE & Netscape. We couldn't wait till there was a clear winner, or a single standard.
The development of web sites/apps was incredibly poor because of cross-compatibility issues from variant standards and was incredibly frustrating for developers. Developers do not want to go through that again, and we will once again end up with some inconsistent poor sites/apps again from either disgruntled developers or from developers leaving the web sector forcing in inexperienced developers. FireFox could have made this transition easier by adding some enhancements, but still rendering like MSIE. Personally, many developers I know are just hoping the IE7 version will take care of its admittedly many issues, and push FireFox back down in the hole. FireFox is good only for getting MS not to be lazy about its dominance. Open Source soldiers may not be fans of MS not adhering perfectly to the W3C standards, but in some ways, the IE dominance reset those standards, and FireFox should have accepted some of those.
As for forcing my beliefs on others like a Jehova Witness peddlar the way the open-source community does, I don't think so. I believe in the use of Proprietary code using open standards, and am rather against most open source and the lack of standardization. Though, I don't go standing on soap boxes pleading with the community to stop open source developement!