>There's a fundamental conflict between design standards and
>marketing.
Bzzt.
>The goal of design standards is to ensure uniformity. One if the goals of
>marketing is to differentiate. When one of those goals pays the bills and
>funds the winter home in Aspen, guess which one will prevail?
The uniform browser. Look at the *data*. Netscape makes some money
from browsers, sure, but... (and if you can't figure the rest out,
don't even bother responding).
>No matter what standards are proposed here, it's been shown that one
>way to make a browser more popular is to add functionality beyond the
>standard. If those extra functions are well received by the
>customers, >whammo< you've got a new 'standard' just waiting to be
>one-upped by another supplier.
This is naive. What is a standard? What is a browser? What do you make
from the former? The latter? The extrapolation thereof?
>Sorry, here's your design hat back. Gimme back my tie.
Bye bye. See you in the employment queue.