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To: PJ Strifas who wrote (27243)6/27/1999 11:25:00 AM
From: Jack Whitley  Read Replies (1) of 42771
 
<<It's terribly funny but what gives me pause is that little by little they have been adding their own stuff into a standard that needs to be approved. They toe-the-line so to speak but still work to make HTML and now the newer XML something that benefits the Win32 platform.
Keep your eyes on the WorldWideWeb Consortium - the day they allow a MSFT employee to chair a committee is the day I really start to sweat.
Thank goodness we still have the Internet Engineer Task Force (IETF) to keep them in line :)>>

From my own experience, you are very correct regarding the gradual corruption of the HTML 3.2 standard. While this area is not currently the focus of the anti-trust trial, I do hope the investigators understand what is going on with this. I will say I didn't think they could co-opt web site development, but they are gradually doing it. It's getting harder and harder to create or edit sites that are supported across a range of browsers. And this is for relatively simple sites, we're not even talking about more sophisticated front-end development technology needed to really leverage the web. If all this development is moved away from an open standard to proprietary, the current desktop monopoly is going to pale in comparison, and that's saying something.

A strong and empowered WWW Consortium and IETF is needed at this stage in the evolution of the Internet, or the current desktop monopoly is going to be extended to the Internet, at least end terms of end-user development standards. In my opinion, that would be a fate worse than death.

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