Netscape Basher wrote: > Christopher Jahn typed: > >> And it came to pass that blackbox wrote: >> >> >>> >>> "Jonas Jørgensen" wrote >>> >>>> If they are accepted by a recognized, trustworthy, >>>> independent, standard-defining organization. For instance: >>>> >>>> Internet Engineering Task Force Request For Comments: >>>> http://www.ietf.org/rfc >>>> >>>> World Wide Webconsortium Recommendations: >>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/#Recommendations >>>> >>> >>> what makes them has that recognition, be trustworthy, >>> and be able to define an standard? >> >> >> >> This group was established to create the World Wide Web in the first >> place. They did it by defining the standards that would allow >> software to be created that could use the standards to browse the >> internet. Without the standards set up by the W3c in the first place, >> there could be no WWW. > > > False. It would of formed. No one group can claim to have founded the > world wide web. >
Bundy, you're baiting. And it's 'would have', not 'would of'. > >> >> This is why they are the recognized international organization that >> sets the standards for the WWW. > > > Wrong. They are one of many groups that makes this claim. It is > interesting that the mozilla.org site is non-w3c compliant. When it is, > let me know. > In a different post, I discuss your claim that things are (or are not) 'w3c compliant'; you're /way/ off track with that one. > >> >> >>> I have visited those sites many times, and i still have not >>> found when, where, how and why the standard was born. >> >> >> >> Look at the creation date of the Consortium. > > > The w3c is irrelvant. Nothing but pro-Linux, MS hating folks. > Then, as good, anti-Linux, M$-loving folk, shouldn't you be using IE 6? After all, you're the one who keeps wanting to insist that /it/ is the standard. Here's an experiment: Go to the M$ site, and find the IE home page (it's http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/ie6/default.asp); then try to find the documentation on IE 6, read thro' it, and come back and tell us what /concrete/ information you've been able to find about IE's standards support/compliance. I've tried, but all I come up against is obfuscatory marketing gibberish that makes my brain feel all soft and spongy. Brian > >> >> > > > -- We sail tonight for Singapore | We're all as mad as hatters here I've fallen for a tawny moor | Took off to the land of Nod Drank with all the Chinamen | Walked the sewers of Paris I danced along a colored wind | Dangled from a rope of sand You must say goodbye to me -- Tom Waits, 'Singapore'
