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| quote: | Originally posted by malek
i know this will sound weird... but what if there was only one standard, no more hassle trying to code for 343098 browsers. I know many web programmers know what I'm talking about.
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Yah, crazy idea uh? lol.. That is exactly what browsers like Opera and Firefox allows us developers to do! Code to _the_ standard (w3). They render pages as close as close possible to the standard. It only makes sense, it is a hell of a lot easier to code to a standard than to code for "343098" browsers and their interpretation of how things should look/behave. It reduces complexcity, inviting developers to focus in more important tasks while providing a long-term viability.
However, don't think for a second that the standard should be MS's interpretation of what HTML/CSS/Javascript should be. Once you have standards being controlled by a single corporation which may have financial incentives to "adjust" these standards, contratry to popular believe, they will only look after the interests of their shareholders (not that it's always a bad thins ofcourse...). Ideally Standards should be open. Imagine a web where a single corporation holds control of the standard, where other organizations wanting to implement other web browsers would have to pay royalities to the owner of the standard (The whole mess of GIF comes to mind). Wow, there would be much less development, less competition for companies like MS, ultimately, less choice for us users. We would be browsing the web with 1998 technology (some of you are!). Imagine a web where websites only work for under the product of the standard's owner ..whoa! once again, us users would get the shitty end of the deal. A more extreme example.. imagine Ford gets in the business of making roads and these roads become the "defacto standard" but wait, these roads only work if you drive Ford cars! LOL. Your idea of having one standard is not a weird idea. It's actually the optimal solution if we want technology to progress while benefiting everyone, but my friend, IE has so far proven that it does not want to cooperate towards that goal.
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