- From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 13:00:13 -0700
- To: Harry Loots <harry.loots@ieee.org>
- Cc: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>, wai-ig list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, "wai-xtech@w3.org WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, webaim-forum@list.webaim.org
Harry Loots wrote: > When was Google elevated to status of beyond reproach? I never said that they were, and I have reproached Google in the past. > If it was Microsoft being criticised would you have defended them in > the same > manner? If the circumstances were the same, absolutely. I would [1] and I have [2]. 1. Though I might do it from a different email account. ;-) 2. For example, web developers love to criticize Internet Explorer, but they forget that at the time version 4 and 5 were released, IE was leaps and bounds above the competition. I've defended Microsoft on this point in the past, and while I prefer the current versions of Safari, Firefox, and Opera to IE, it doesn't mean I think IE is a terrible product that brings shame on Microsoft as a whole.
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