- From: Rob Lanphier <robla@real.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:40:10 -0700
- To: www-qa@w3.org
Here's exactly why certification is so critical:
As first reported by CNET News.com, some Mozilla and Opera
users found Thursday that they could not access the new MSN
site. Instead, they were given the option of downloading a
version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
[....]
[Bob Visse, MSN's director of marketing] said earlier Thursday
that the message would be shown to people using "browsers that
we know don't support (W3C) standards or that we can't insure
will get a great experience for the customer." W3C refers to
the World Wide Web Consortium, which is developing industry
standards for Web technologies.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7660935.html?tag=tp_pr
Microsoft has backed down, but that's not the issue. What is the issue is
that the news article doesn't challenge Visse's implication that Opera and
Mozilla are less standards compliant than IE. I'm sure that if there was a
certification mark to be had, both the Opera and Mozilla development
organizations would seek it out as a defensive posture against such attacks.
Rob
Received on Thursday, 25 October 2001 20:39:16 UTC