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At 10:49 PM -0600 1/20/00, Len Bullard wrote: > > >What some of us are saying is that we are voting with our feet >and we vote for innovation and reliability, that is why we >use IE and encourage or insist our customers do. Universal >access is not only not always needed, it is often undesirable. > There is a question about innovation and standards here. If hypothetical browsers X and Y are both fully compliant with all existing W3C standards, does that still leave the browsers enough room so that their presentation of the same content or their functionality will be significantly different. If the answer the answer to that question is yes (which apparently it is), and if that difference is important (which it seems to be to a significant number of developers here) then shouldn't future W3C standards address this problem? Otherwise, why should we even bother with the standards? If browsers are really a commodity then, as others have said, the innovations should go through the W3C. Then browsers X and Y can compete on other features, reliability being an excellent example. Cheers, Michael ************************************************ Michael Rose Center for Tele-Information, Technical University of Denmark mailto:rose@t... http://www.cti.dtu.dk/personal/rose Multimedia in the Home - http://mmhome.cit.dk 'and what is the use of a computer' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation' with apologies to Lewis Carroll ************************************************* xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ or CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 Unsubscribe by posting to majordom@i... the message unsubscribe xml-dev (or) unsubscribe xml-dev your-subscribed-email@your-subscribed-address Please note: New list subscriptions now closed in preparation for transfer to OASIS.
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