Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Feb 18 14:16:53 CST 2013
Hi Shamil: >From a developers point of view, I have never had any issues with Mozilla as they have either made and/or adhered close to the industry standards. In this business they are one of the good guys and I hope they keep doing what they are doing. Imagine a railway that has half a dozen variations of track widths. That would be a disaster in the making. All our equipment communicates via standards in protocols and that does not mean each company using those protocols is part of a uniculture. Imagine what would happen in a family if every member spoke a different language and refused to communicate in a common agreed upon dialect. Microsoft, with its browser has been the industry bad-boy. I suspect that much their deviation from the industries standards stems from the time when they were the computer uniculture and what was good for Microsoft was good for the industry. I think the company has been a little bitter and has been resistant to the new directions and has been muddying the browser market for the last five years and now they are suffering appropriately. OTOH, I do think or at least hope, that Microsoft can get over themselves and that they have learned to be a good citizen like Mozilla and the calls for MS to change their FE to Webkit will no longer be necessary. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov Shamil Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 9:59 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] FYI: Moving to "nirvana": if Microsoft were to shift to WebKit, you can thank Opera. Hi Jim -- Thank you for the link - what about the following opinions coming from "Firefox-camp" (read the articles): "What we do know is that in technology, we've never been served well by monocultures - we know this for sure. I worry that in our desire for clearer definition, easier standards, faster progress, we're forgetting that we know this. Same as it ever was, I suppose." http://lilly.tumblr.com/post/43088488614/a-few-folks-have-asked-me-what-i-th ink-of-the-news "Why Mozilla Matters" - "At the Mozilla mission level, monoculture remains a problem that we must fight. The web needs multiple implementations of its evolving standards to keep them interoperable." https://brendaneich.com/2013/02/why-mozilla-matters -- Shamil Понедельник, 18 февраля 2013, 9:31 -08:00 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>: >Hi Guys: > >I was reading the following article a few days ago and it was posted as a >objective view to webkit. It may be an appropriate time to post it here: > >http://robertnyman.com/2013/02/14/webkit-an-objective-view/ > >As discussed in the article, Webkit is far from stable or standardized and >it might as easily fork one direction or the other at any time. > >The interesting thing to note is that no one owns webkit. In fact it is a >completely Open Source project in which many companies and individuals >contribute. > >Aside: It can be noted that Microsoft has contributed resources, at least in >the past and some programmers who either work or have worked for MS are >working on the project now. OSS is the driving force of the computer >industries' creative advancement and proprietary software companies' >resources keep OSS flourishing. IMHO it is all part of the over-all uneasy >alliance between the world proprietary software and OSS world. One can not >grow without the other. > >Jim <<< skipped >>> > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com