On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:01:42 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Martin Gregorie > <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> wrote: >> 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. > > IE 6. Why is it still around? Because MS deliberately set out to > encourage companies to use its features (mainly in intranet > applications). > Fair point, though I should point out that IIRC its contemporary rivals were often as bad when it came to standards compliance. I don't remember many standards-compliant browsers before the first release of Opera.
Never ascribe to malice things that can equally be achieved by incompetence. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
