Submission + - There go our web standards..... (pwnage.ca) 2
blozza2070 writes: Jeff Jaffe (AKA Zonker), Software Patent Supporter, Microsoft Apologist, Ex-IBM, Ex-Novell, FSF hating troll is now the CEO of the W3C. It is the organization responsible for web standards which have been promoted by Firefox, Opera, and Google. The w3c has been known for hiring bad staff but this just takes the cake. How long do you think it will take before MS-invented standards are pushed as defacto standards?
Published as... wait, what? (Score:2)
That word, I do not think it means what you think it means...
Some Good Things (Score:1)
If he pushed IE standards, I'd like to see Javascript behaviors added to CSS standards. It should be simple for browsers to implement and would, IMHO, cut down on some of the most egregious uses of Flash to make pretty menus on webpages.
But then, Microsoft's involvement in standards has always been on the not-good-enough side, not the pushing-new-technologies side. And if a Microsoft technology became a web standard, it wouldn't really be that evil anymore because web standards are supported by more than IE