Re: And so it continues...

[Adam Glauser <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron Bartell wrote:
> It will be interesting to see the IT landscape in 20 years.  Having
> standards committees is great for moving forward interoperation at a fast
> pace, but it slows individual companies down to a crawl concerning
> innovation as they have to wait for standards committees to come up with
> next versions instead of developing them in-house.
>
> What we are seeing in the Silverlight/AdobeFlex/JavaFX space is a nice
> medium I think, because it gets away from so much reliance on browsers and
> their adherance to specifications (i.e. HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc)

I have to disagree with your opinion that standards stifle innovation. 
Look at Google, they've done some pretty darn innovative things IMHO, 
using just those web standards you mention above.

I think this might be getting rather off-topic, shall we take this 
somewhere else?  (I'm not really sure where though :)