Bill Gates on Microsoft’s commitment to Web Standards in a recent interview by Molly E. Holzschlag (the question was on things like HTML and CSS and why they are so horribly implemented in IE):

But every year for 13, 14 years now we’ve not just followed and implemented standards, we’ve contributed. This WS stuff, … we contributed more Web standards than anyone!

That’s so sad.

Roy Fielding, almost five years ago, on “this WS stuff”:

If this thing is going to be called Web Services, then I insist that it actually have something to do with the Web. If not, I'd rather have the WS-I group responsible for abusing the marketplace with yet another CORBA/DCOM than have the W3C waste its effort pandering to the whims of marketing consultants. I am not here to accommodate the requirements of mass hysteria.

Naturally, Microsoft’s Chris Wilson will chair the new W3C HTML working group. If that’s not a slap in the face to web developers and designers everywhere, I don’t know what is.

I said good day sir!

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Discuss

  1. File under outOfTouch.

    Well-done on the obscure Willy Wonka quote BTW.

    — Bill Higgins on Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 08:07 PM #

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