- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:09:36 +0200
- To: Rob Lanphier <robla@real.com>, www-qa@w3.org
At 17:40 -0700 2001-10-25, Rob Lanphier wrote:
>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
When you're trying to validate the actual MSN Home Page at the date
of today 26 October 2001. It doesn't validate.
>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
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