The Death of a W3C Standard. Oh, maybe I’m being overdramatic, but I think if this keeps up we’ll be seeing a lot of “W3C non-compliant” graphics sprouting up on web pages. What’s scarier is that the most popular web browser on the planet — IE — will automatically follow the official web standards (no surprise here, MS is a big cheese in the W3C), leaving the ‘unofficial’ web inaccessible to the vast majority of users. Can you say ‘corporatisation of the web’? Anyway, this is probably a good time to start checking out Mozilla and Konquerer — they are not upto IE’s standard yet, but somehow in a (putative for now, thank goodness) patented web, I trust them a lot more than I would IE.
Note to TBL: We still trust you. End this RAND madness now.