Invisible wrote:
> ad hoc way the first implementation happened to do it).

Yeah. You want to know who started the browser wars? Look at your agent 
string. :-)

There are also a lot of standards that got changed in subtle ways that broke 
a lot of stuff, because the first spec was basically "here's how we do it." 
For example, Netscape said "Here's how we do cookies.  Yadda yadda only save 
20 per site yadda yadda."  IE did the same thing.  W3C comes along and makes 
a standard that says any number of cookies per site. Lots of web sites that 
for some stupid reason depended on only having 20 cookies fail with 
W3C-compliant browsers, continuing to work with IE *because* MS won't follow 
the standards and instead wants the web pages to work right for their 
customers, even when the pages on the server are stupidly coded. Launch 
complaining in 3... 2... 1....

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The question in today's corporate environment is not
   so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
   "what color is your nose?"

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