Bob Cozzi wrote on 17/05/2007 12:12:06:
In the mean time, I don't see how waiting for a standards committee to 
adding
new things bothers anyone else, so why should it bother IBM? Microsoft 
doesn't
wait, why should IBM? 
I'm not convinced that using a "standard" technology/protocol but ignoring 
the standards body when adding extensions is any better than creating your 
own technology or protocol.  If you aren't going to respect the standard, 
don't pretend to!  I wouldn't mind if they made up their own GUI 
protocols, as long as they are well documented and openly published so 
that people can interoperate with them, write clients for other platforms, 
etc.
Just extend the browser with AJAX or whatever 
and be done
with it. Let the other catch up.
Is AJAX really an extension of any standards, or is just a new way of 
combining existing standards?
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