Re^2: OT: How do you serve up XHTML?

[Cap'n Steve]

While it's true Microsoft has a bad record when it comes to playing nicely with others, W3C has a history of useless standards. If not for proprietary extensions, I think innovation on the web would be long dead.

[amarquis]

W3C annoys me by creating standards that no UA will ever, ever, implement. Sometimes they are impractical, sometimes they try to make xhtml/css duplicate functionality of a better solution.

IE vexes me not so much because of proprietary extensions or standards breaking, but because what they decide to break isn't intuitive to me. Things I expect to work fail; Things I expect to fail somehow work.

All in all, though, I think we've got it better in this generation than we have before. Some of these issues are still a pain to deal with, but I recall it often took herculean effort to make even minor functionality work in all the UAs out there.