[UPHPU] Are we facing another standards storm?

[jtaber]

Troublesome especially when there is a standard: W3C
HTML - W3C standard
CSS - W3C standard
SVG - W3C standard
SMIL - W3C standard
AJAX - W3C standard
JS - W3C standard
Firefox - virtually W3C compliant
Safari - web kit (10.5) now pretty compliant
Java - now open sourced.
Ruby Rails - open sourced
PHP - open sourced

the other formats are proprietary, lock-in intended, embrace, extend, 
extinguish,  formats.  Proceed at your own risk.


Alvaro Carrasco wrote:
> Victor Villa wrote:
>> I'm sure that many here are old enough to remember the legendary 
>> battle of
>> IE 4 v Netscape 4.   I'm sure many of us still have JS snippets of 
>> browser
>> detection so that the IE code is given to the IE browser and the 
>> Netscape
>> code is given to the netscape browser.
>>
>>  
>>
>> What a nightmare, I'm sure glad THOSE days are over; or are they?
>>
>>  
>>
>> It seems that Havoc has been cried and the dogs of war slipped over the
>> battleground of RIA.  Here is what I mean.  
>>  
>>
>> Adobe Flash &  Apollo v MS Silverlight & WPF v FireFox Cairo v Sun 
>> JavaFX v
>> AJAX JS Frameworks v APEE (Anomalous Pretty Eye-candy Engine).
>>
>>  
>> ...
>>
>>
>>   
> At least on this war we get to choose which technology to use. On the 
> browser wars, we were forced to deal with both browsers.
>
> Alvaro
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