On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:50:24 -0700, Westley Martínez wrote: > Also, why aren't Opera and Google criticized for their proprietary > browsers (Chrome is essentially a proprietary front-end)? Is it because > their browsers follow web standards, or is it because we have demonized > Microsoft? > Personally, I could care less whether a web browser is proprietary or not. What matters to me is whether its standards-compliant enough to interoperate successfully with standards-compliant browsers. If you're going to argue about web standards its better to criticise non-compliant servers since those will piss off a greater number of people.
I think the only real evil is to set out to make a non-standards- compliant server and then design client software that seeks to lock in people to your server. FWIW I'm not certain that is anything that MS deliberately set out to do. Judging from stories over the years of lost code (the Win98 New Year problem) and the general slackness of their project management, its equally possible its simply the result of out of control, anarchic and undocumented software development. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
