[Sigia-l] MS, Scripting and Standards Compliance (and Food)

[H Taylor]

I don't really want to comment on the larger thread to which this comment
belongs, but I couldn't let this little snippet go by:

> If you were referring to implementation problems (deriving those to
> cross-platforms problems), that could be due to the lack of standard
> specifications about DOM, and I've said W3C has already developed it, so
> MS can now do their job in the correct way.

Are we to believe, then, that for all these years, Microsoft has really been
*trying* to be standards-compliant, and just occasionally goes awry only
because standards don't exist or are poorly defined?

Are you familiar with the term "embrace and extend"? Have you thought about
what is implicit in these helpful efforts to give their customers a little
something extra, and how it might just coincidentally benefit their business
model to deviate a bit from standards?

I apologize for straying off topic, but since I'm already way out there,
I'll back up Christina's assertion about London's reputation as a food mecca
(with the minor caveat that this does not represent a triumph for
traditional British food, but another scene altogether).

Ok, we now resume your regularly scheduled broadcasting....

-Hal Taylor