____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Friday 09 November 2007 01:36 : \____
> Once again Microsoft is dictating where we all want to
> go today. Thank you Microsoft for mucking up what should
> have been a very straightforward problem. (And this is
> *after* deprecating the <APPLET> tag, but that's another
> rant for another day.)
$Employer hopefully does not require you to do a lot of JS. Microsoft has
similar plans for JS.
Mozilla, Microsoft drawing sabers over next JavaScript
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| Eich charged in turn that Microsoft's arguments are self-serving. "At best,
| we have a fundamental conflict of visions and technical values between the
| majority and the minority," he wrote. "However, the obvious conflict of
| interest between the standards-based web and proprietary platforms advanced
| by Microsoft, and the rationales for keeping the web's client-side
| programming language small while the proprietary platforms rapidly evolve
| support for large languages, does not help maintain the fiction that only
| clashing high-level philosophies are involved here."
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;554904782;fp;2;fpid;1
I have some better references that explain the severity of this dispute, but it
would take a while to fetch them. And it's not just JavaScript. XAML is on its
way too, along with a whole fat stack that's indended to hijack the Web in the
server room and the desktop.
ECIS Accuses Microsoft of Plotting HTML Hijack
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| An industry coalition that has represented competitors of Microsoft
| in European markets before the European Commission stepped up its
| public relations offensive this morning, this time accusing
| Microsoft of scheming to upset HTML's place in the fabric of
| the Internet with XAML, an XML-based layout lexicon forn
| etwork applications.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/ECIS_Accuses_Microsoft_of_Plotting_HTML_Hijack/1169824569
Remember that Microsoft admitted sabotaging and ignoring Web standard. Also
recall memos where they said that they should ignore standards body because
they are big enough to go proprietary (how can one also forget Ballmer's "we
ARE the standard").
What the world needs is not a W3Consortium, but a W3Police. The US government
is being bribed by Microsoft to police nothing, so someone's got to make a
first step (or foreign countries truly realise what Microsoft is doing).
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