Opera's CTO responds to Bill Gate's calls for interoperabilty on the web.

Stuart · 14-02-2005, 10:50

Bill Gates has decided the only way for businesses for move forward is for software vendors to ensure their software operates correctly with other software (http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/exec...perability.asp).

Funny, certain people have been saying that (me, Richard M and other members of this forum for a start) for ages.

Reading through that article, it seems Microsoft is trying to claim credit for other people's technology working with their technology. The way I remember it is that other people (e.g. Apple & the various Linux vendors) have gone out of their way to make their technology with Microsoft, not the other way around.

I personally like the reply from Opera's CTO (another company who works hard for standardisation), which is at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02...rroperability/

It's also funny how the W3C page validator brings up 126 errors on Microsoft's article (above). http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...perability.asp

Richard M · 14-02-2005, 11:06

Interesting read, thanks.

philip.j.fry · 14-02-2005, 11:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by scastle

Bill Gates has decided the only way for businesses for move forward is for software vendors to ensure their software operates correctly with other software.

No s**t, what a fantastic concept now why did no-one think of it before?. All hail Bill

(sorry for the excessive sarcasm but it's one of those mornings

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Stuart · 14-02-2005, 11:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by philip.j.fry

No s**t, what a fantastic concept now why did no-one think of it before?. All hail Bill

(sorry for the excessive sarcasm but it's one of those mornings

)

No probs.. I posted the link expecting (and hoping for) replies like this..

ikthius · 14-02-2005, 11:55

well I hope that he will start to work out that people will not stand for the whole crappy IE not working with web standards.

I am changing my website and my homepage works very well in Firefox, netscape & Opera, but does not work the way I want it on IE, I wonder why that is??????

if anything microsoft should change their policy if gates is saying that, they should support web standards and make their browser render it correctly.

people would probably go back to IE if it would render correctly, and if it had tabbed browsing.

ik