Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> You also by definition wouldn't have any standards in the first place, 
> because nobody would ever implement anything even slightly similarly.

Not true. Look at the IETF spec process.  There are proposed standards that 
just don't become standards until several people have implemented it 
similarly enough that they interoperate in all the ways required by the spec.

W3C looks at what's going on, says "this would be a better way, so everyone 
should change how they work things."

> Have you *seen* the FTP spec? Sure it works, but it's _horrible_! >_<

It's actually not too bad, overall. And it has evolved over time. It's *way* 
better than HTTP for example.

Even so, put it this way: How many browsers can't get to the web server 
(HTTP, an IETF standard), compared to the number of browsers that render the 
page incorrectly (HTML, a W3C standard)?

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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