Sent by Mungbeans on 26 June 2004 00:12
>This gives standards-supporters -- Mozilla, Opera, KHTML, Apple,
>OmniGroup -- a good time-frame to penetrate MSIE's dominance. I'm not
>saying it's going to happen but to infer that web standards is only an
>academic exercise for discussion is premature, IMHO.
I agree. The huge time lag before IE will be ungraded could be a major
strategic error on MS's part. IE is starting to look old.
I don't think there is any need for pessimism. But I don't think
web-standards is what is going to get the newer browsers market share. What
will work is emphasising their newer cooler features and better security.
This is what the average guy on the street is interested in. Web standards
are essentially a geek issue. This is why I don't think the "Take Back the
Web" campaign will work. Its emphasising the old browser war mentality,
when the message which should be sent out should be "Try this its really
cool". (ok I'll never be an ad exec.)
Leonie
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