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Re: html3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Smyth)
Fri Sep 1 15:56:05 1995
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 95 10:04:19 PDT
From: dsmyth@mpfcmd1.jpl.nasa.gov (David Smyth)
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
> > > A *lot* of PC browsers support HTML3, including Mosaic (well...) and
> > > Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
> >
> > Yes, but why do they support a non-standard? Simple...they have to in
> > order to compete with Netscape or they will sink.
>
> Well, that and the fact that the web is a lot *better* with the extensions
> than without.
The ONLY standard is a de-facto standard. Netscape is currently setting the
De-Facto standard, because they have massive market share, and they have
massive market share because they simply do the job very, very well, and for
a very low price.
Berkeley and then Sun used to set the standard in UNIX stuff, until
everything got very mature. What standard body oversaw the evolution of X?
C was better before ANSI got involved. The only useful thing to come out of
OSF was Motif, and that was done before it got trapped in the mire of
camel-ism and "standard planning by consensus." Standard bodies are only
useful when the de-facto standard has slowed its evolution DRAMATICALLY.
Otherwise, standard bodies (ANSI, whatever) are very, very counter
productive.
Do you not use TCP/IP, or EMACS, or vi, or rn, or xterm, or WinNT, or Visual
Basic, or Java, because it has not been blessed by ANSI or ISO?
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