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Not really.

He makes a good point that Apple refusing to embrace a standard is not that important when Safari represents so little of the market share. But I would go further to say that the the standard itself means very little when Microsoft, Apple, and other companies won't comply with it. Look at SVG. it's a stadard for vector graphics, so how many browsers support it? One? So who cares. As a consumer, I will use what works with the least amount of changes to the system, as a programmer I'll code for the browser that offers the largest support for my audience.

If IE keeps filling my computer with crappy plugins that reinforce their own proprietary systems then I'll just use something else. It's why I don't go to NBC's website anymore. I won't buy or support products from vendors whose sites that don't work in Firefox or whatever browser I choose to use at the time.

Tech companies will not dictate what we use and what vendors buy into if we do not let them, I as the consumer will dictate to the vendors what they will use and they in turn will have to cater to how I want to be sold products if they want my money.

If Netflix refuses to support H.264 or Ogg T for online viewing and I feel like this is something I absolutely need, then I will just go to another source or walk my butt down to the video store and rent it offline.

Posted by: Socratesfoot   Posted on: 07/06/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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