John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which standards? Again: w3c is not an official standards organization. > Moreover, Netscape added LiveScript, oh wait, I mean JavaScript, and the > *cough* blink element. >> By contracting with sites to include non-standard IE features to >> deliberately break NS. > NS also added features to HTML.
Yup. When NS was the 800 lb gorilla on they acted like MS, and did whatever they thought would be best for their bottom line, never mind ethics, legality, morality, the effect it had on their users, their business partners, or the web as a whole. People bitched about NS back then. Some of us predicted what would happen when they tangled with MS, which had - and has - much more experience at this game. Now that NS is no longer the 800 lb gorilla, they can see the advantages of interoperability, and try and implement the same languages that everyone else does. It would be funny if I didn't have to live with the aftermath. "Everybody else does it" is not a defense for criminal behavior. On the off chance you haven't heard, two wrongs do *not* make a right. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list