Comment Re:Web standards noncompliance (Score 2, Insightful) 123
"First, it criticizes Microsoft for ignoring or failing to implement standards. Then, it criticizes Microsoft for participating in the standards process and implementing standards."
Nowhere does anyone criticize Microsoft for implementing standards because they simply haven't implemented standards .
The OP criticizes Microsoft for implementing a "bastardized clone" of a standard, which is not the same thing as a standard. It is the obverse of a standard.
When browser vendors all implement the same standard markup, designers and developers only have to write web pages *once*. Designs and web applications can *flourish* because they are cheap to make and quick to appear.
When browser vendors each implement different markup languages, designers and developers suffer the nightmare of having to write and debug web pages and web applications again and again and again and again. Consumers miss out on new designs and new applications. The world is stuck in 1997, which suits Microsoft just fine since 1997 was a very profitable year for that company.
Meanwhile, for consumers, 2007 is a choice between buying Vista for more than they payed for an operating system in 1997, and buying five year old XP for the same price as they would pay for Vista! Do you get excited by that kind of choice?
