By Kendall Grant Clark, XML.com
I now find myself with a wealth of choices, not
only on OS X -- where I use a freewheeling mixture of Mozilla,
Safari, and Firefox daily -- but also on Linux. Windows users who
continue to use Internet Explorer fall into one of several camps:
they either don't know or don't care about web standards and
compliance thereto; or they can't tell the difference between a
bloated piece of software and a quality piece of software; or they
can tell, but that difference is of no importance to them. If they
don't know or care about IE's many defects, why should I? Because
there are so many of them! In the ideal world technology standards
would unify, rationalize, and perhaps create new markets. While
this kind of positive benefit is sometimes achieved by bodies like
ISO, W3C, and OASIS, in the real world, given Microsoft's total
domination of desktop computing, that its browser does not excel
ends up being not only a pain for users but also a pain for
developers and publishers.
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