Gary
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My rant
Ok, most of you are going to want to leave you own opinions on this and argue with me, so please do. The forum for this is HERE. I'm going to say a lot of things that will probably piss a lot of you off, but hell that's life. This is all opinion, so no one is really going to be right.
Now, to start with, yes, the css syntax is wrong. It does not follow "standards", but IE doesn't whine like a little punk about it. Fire Fox however does. Like I said, in this case I was definitely wrong, but it reminded me a lot about working with Open Source code and developers. Developers that work with commercial code, when they run into a problem, complain about the code their using being junk. When open source developers run into a problem, they complain that the commercial code isn't following "standards".
You may wonder why I'm putting "standards" in quotes. It's because a bunch of rules made up by mostly academia isn't really a standard. It's a bunch of pompous people with little real world experience defining how the world should work. One word, communism, because that worked out so well. The other issue is that most open source projects follow the "standards" they want, as does the commercial software, and both also interpret the rules in their own way, pulling them both away from the literal "standards". Most of the time neither is more standard compliant than the other.
Ok, I'm going to end my rant for now. I may rant more later. The jist is, stop wining about standards, they aren't real standards. If five percent of the people follow one set of rules, is it really more the standard than the set of rules that the ninety-five percent are using? My guess would be that the ninety-five percent are actually a better call for a standard, since they are the majority by far.
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