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Here's What I Believe

I believe that the browsers should follow whatever the standard says. That's not to say that you can't innovate ... but if you deviate from the standard, it should be noted clearly.

So, if the standards says colons, use colons.
If it says use equal signs, use equal signs.
If it says that either are equivalent, then that's the way it is.

Otherwise, you have an odd situation. Let's say that the technology standard says colons. But I write my own browser that uses colons ... and I sneak in an equals sign too because it does make sense. Now, my browser catches on because it's pretty good ... and so I write a development environment too. And that catches on too because of the integration with my own browser, which makes development easier.

But in the code that is generated from my development tool, let's say I stick in the equal signs instead of the standard colon.

So now, because I have a very popular browser and development combo, I claim that the rest of the world is broken. In a very real way, I believe that is what Microsoft has done. And if that's compiled with with thousands of features across many vendors (yes, Sun and IBM do it too) ... well, you have the current state of the Internet.

I don't like all of the standards ... many, I don't agree with (more so with SQL standards than HTML standards). But they should still be respected to allow my systems to be as flexible as I can write them.

Just my two cents.

Posted by: coffeenite   Posted on: 11/04/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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