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Re: info center search. III.

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Brad Jensen wrote:

> > show up in your logs because your website doesn't work?  What you're
> > not getting is that you don't have to do *anything* to "support"
> > NetScape 6 or Opera, just write clean HTML.
>
> All these other browser have to do is make sure they support the IE version
> of things.
>
> Then there is no problem.

Maybe you've heard of the difficulties in writing Windows file servers?
Or using Kerberos authentication with new versions of Windows?  Or Word
file formats?  All of these are examples of "standards" that Microsoft
routinely breaks in order to force upgrades and lock in of their products.
Allowing Microsoft to also write the standards for the Web means that
those same headaches will exist for all web browsing.  There are
significant problems associated with allowing Microsoft (or any one
company/individual) be the standard setter.  Patents and royalties being
just some of them.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com

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