- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:19:53 +0200
On Dec 21, 2006, at 15:06, Mike Schinkel wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: >> Google, Yahoo and MSN aren't in the business of enforcing a >> standards- compliance agenda. > > Who is? I may be missing something obvious, but I can't think of anyone who'd by in the business of enforcing Web standards per se. Depending on country, disability interest groups (what's the right term?) or governments may in the "business" of enforcing accessibility, which is related. (I think I am not in the business of enforcing standards. I am in the business of developing a quality assurance tool.) > And at the risk of sounding snarky, can you point me to a > reference where is it codified that they are not (at least > partially) in the > business of standards? Using standards in their business and contributing to standards is different from having enforcement as part of business. > P.S. Ian works for Google and he sure seems pretty adamant about > standards... Presumably, they care about moving Web apps forward. That doesn't mean their business includes *enforcing* standards by putting violators on the stocks. I think this mailing list is not the right place to speculate what search engines could or won't do. I suggest pitching the enforcement ideas to search engine providers directly. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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