Alternatives to the W3C

[Steven Livingstone, ITS, SENM]

>Maybe I'm old-fashioned; I believe passionately that the Internet needs for
>there to be more than one browser.  -T.

Aye, but try developing applications for users in Scotland (and we have
several US offices).
When the business suddenly says "everyone must be able to use it", you
suddenly have to score out a whole load of technologies and the development
either takes a lot longer (justify that to the guy paying) or just doesn't
work that well for users.

Don't get me wrong, I would not like any one company to dominate, as
competitiveness = innovation, but surely they could all argue their
"standards" to produce one really good browser. After all, the W3C are able
to do it.

cheers
steven

Steven Livingstone 
Glasgow, Scotland
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tim Bray [SMTP:tbray at textuality.com]
> Sent:	20 January 2000 04:47
> To:	Don Park; 'XML Dev'
> Subject:	RE: Alternatives to the W3C
> 
> At 08:15 PM 1/19/00 -0800, Don Park wrote:
> >I think we will all benefit tremendously if there was just
> >one browser to support.
> 
> Maybe I'm old-fashioned; I believe passionately that the Internet needs
> for
> there to be more than one browser.  -T.
> 
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