Re: IE8 standalone IE7?

Gus Richter wrote:

Read this titled, "Spiderman and the XHTML Kindergarten". It will really give you something to chuckle about:

<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2009May/0029>


Oh, dear God!

My wife and I were today reacting to something on the news. And she said:

"Nearly every committee I experienced was a waste of time."

And this from a woman who was a very successful VP in a multi-national corporation. Me, I'm a somewhat less successful exec in another such company. But my experience is the same: Committees are usually a waste of time.

Her take? Any successful endeavor needs a leader. Pure and simple, someone needs to take charge. Someone needs to issue an edict. That edict may come from committee discussions but someone needs to be in charge, take charge, and issue the "answer." And then enforce the edict. People who violate the edict get fired. Products that do not adhere to the edict cease to exist.

But, no, we have a nice egalitarian world where ... oh, screw it. It doesn't work.

Frankly? If MS had succeeded in making IE and its "standards" universal? We wouldn't be arguing about this today.

I'm not saying we'd all be happy, but we wouldn't be arguing.

So. The non-MS standards efforts are a laughing stock. As are the MS efforts. And we are all left with chaos.

--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
A dirty book is rarely dusty.
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