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3 years ago
in Windows Guru Calls For IE7 Boycott on dmiessler.com | grep understanding
As we transition into Digital Broadcast TV over the coming years, imagine if some company decided that the standard that has been agreed to is "missing" a feature or two. So, they create TV's that do "most" of the stuff in the standard and ALSO have the capability to do a couple of extra things. Then they offer for sale equipment and/or software that stations can use to do these extra things (basically to broadcast to THEIR sets). A few stations (perhaps not understanding that there is a STANDARD that everyone has agreed to ... or perhaps not understanding that these "extras" will only be viewable by those using sets made by the one manufacturer and may make their broadcasts LESS viewable by others) purchase the equipment/software and implement some of the extras. It would be crazy. Is it true that there are worthwhile features that could be added to ANY fixed standard? Of course. But there is MUCH greater value in having a standard.
Jason, you're right ... I misspoke when I talked about the purpose of the "web." I should have said that picking and choosing from a standard feature set or even worse (MUCH MUCH WORSE) adding features to a standard feature set defeats the purpose of a standard feature set. Raise your hand if you remember Microsoft's alteration of Java. I mean COME ON ... if you are not implementing the standards of HTML (or JAVA or whatever), then you're not implementing HTML (or JAVA or whatever), you're implementing something ELSE.
Jason, you're right ... I misspoke when I talked about the purpose of the "web." I should have said that picking and choosing from a standard feature set or even worse (MUCH MUCH WORSE) adding features to a standard feature set defeats the purpose of a standard feature set. Raise your hand if you remember Microsoft's alteration of Java. I mean COME ON ... if you are not implementing the standards of HTML (or JAVA or whatever), then you're not implementing HTML (or JAVA or whatever), you're implementing something ELSE.
3 years ago
in Windows Guru Calls For IE7 Boycott on danielmiessler.com | grep understanding
As we transition into Digital Broadcast TV over the coming years, imagine if some company decided that the standard that has been agreed to is "missing" a feature or two. So, they create TV's that do "most" of the stuff in the standard and ALSO have the capability to do a couple of extra things. Then they offer for sale equipment and/or software that stations can use to do these extra things (basically to broadcast to THEIR sets). A few stations (perhaps not understanding that there is a STANDARD that everyone has agreed to ... or perhaps not understanding that these "extras" will only be viewable by those using sets made by the one manufacturer and may make their broadcasts LESS viewable by others) purchase the equipment/software and implement some of the extras. It would be crazy. Is it true that there are worthwhile features that could be added to ANY fixed standard? Of course. But there is MUCH greater value in having a standard.
Jason, you're right ... I misspoke when I talked about the purpose of the "web." I should have said that picking and choosing from a standard feature set or even worse (MUCH MUCH WORSE) adding features to a standard feature set defeats the purpose of a standard feature set. Raise your hand if you remember Microsoft's alteration of Java. I mean COME ON ... if you are not implementing the standards of HTML (or JAVA or whatever), then you're not implementing HTML (or JAVA or whatever), you're implementing something ELSE.
Jason, you're right ... I misspoke when I talked about the purpose of the "web." I should have said that picking and choosing from a standard feature set or even worse (MUCH MUCH WORSE) adding features to a standard feature set defeats the purpose of a standard feature set. Raise your hand if you remember Microsoft's alteration of Java. I mean COME ON ... if you are not implementing the standards of HTML (or JAVA or whatever), then you're not implementing HTML (or JAVA or whatever), you're implementing something ELSE.
