Re: [PLUG] Will html 5 adoption end incompatibility woes for Linux users?

2011-03-12 Thread Ghodechhap
On Friday 11 March 2011 09:29:30 Gaurav Pant wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Ghodechhap ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2011 22:44:15 Mayuresh wrote: Not that the standards didn't exist before. But why do we have this era of IE only sites? laziness.. lot

Re: [PLUG] Will html 5 adoption end incompatibility woes for Linux users?

2011-03-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/12/2011 09:17 AM, Ghodechhap wrote: To be fair, there is no reference implementation of standard and lot of incompatibilities we see today are down to different interpretation of standard. However that does not help the marketplace. Reference implementations never will work for

[PLUG] Will html 5 adoption end incompatibility woes for Linux users?

2011-03-10 Thread Mayuresh
Not that the standards didn't exist before. But why do we have this era of IE only sites? Are things going to be different on the browser interoperability front with adoption of HTML 5? Any views on this? Tim Berners-Lee said this in 1996 though not much really changed on this front: Anyone

Re: [PLUG] Will html 5 adoption end incompatibility woes for Linux users?

2011-03-10 Thread Ghodechhap
On Thursday 10 March 2011 22:44:15 Mayuresh wrote: Not that the standards didn't exist before. But why do we have this era of IE only sites? laziness.. lot of people do not realize(d) that It works on my machine is a problem. besides, making a site work in both IE and firefox(or other

Re: [PLUG] Will html 5 adoption end incompatibility woes for Linux users?

2011-03-10 Thread Gaurav Pant
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Ghodechhap ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2011 22:44:15 Mayuresh wrote: Not that the standards didn't exist before. But why do we have this era of IE only sites? laziness.. lot of people do not realize(d) that It works on my machine is a