Daily Archives: June 15, 2007

Stop the Web We Want to Get Off

Jun
15
2007

Few weeks back at this months AWIA Mini Talks, An attendee (edit: name removed at request) brought up the argument that the web industry doesn’t really have standards at all. Well not standards in the traditional sense. It more has a series of guidelines that browser vendors have chosen to implement their way. He commented they need to stop and fix it before moving forward. Now I have been thinking on this for while, why not just freeze all the standards and get them all implemented correctly. Well Molly Holzschlag has been thinking this too. To the extent she suggests: