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565.3 30.0 M(1)S
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(Dustin Curtis is an asshole.)S
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(Sunday 12 February 2012 16:04)S
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(For the benefit of the weak of mind it would have been so much easier to let Microsoft win the browser wars)S
56.7 648.5 M
(ten years ago. That would have given us for example a nice vector based graphics implementation,)S
56.7 636.5 M
(hardware accelerated graphics effects and web typography. At this point when WebKit seems to have the)S
56.7 624.5 M
(same advantages as Internet Explorer had ten years ago mongering the killing of W3C is like supporting)S
56.7 612.5 M
(democracy only to get into power and then start supporting dictatorship. There is of course nothing wrong)S
56.7 600.5 M
(with dictatorship when you're the dictator or part of it's clan. So buy some shares of $AAPL or $GOOG and)S
56.7 588.5 M
(start building WebKit only sites: there is nothing wrong with vendor lock-in if you're the vendor.)S
56.7 566.5 M
(Standards aren't designed for the current MVP development mentality of the minimum viable developers that)S
56.7 554.5 M
(most web developers seem to be these days. If your only maintenance issue with web standards would be)S
56.7 542.5 M
(giving an intern the login to your WordPress site, you shouldn't care about web standards and vendor)S
56.7 530.5 M
(prefixes. And only the developer with a minimal viable mindset would interpret vendor prefixes as being)S
56.7 518.5 M
("experimental", and propose to promoting them to have only -alpha- or -beta- meaning. They are just a)S
56.7 506.5 M
(mechanism for allowing a namespace within the syntax of valid CSS so you don't have to split it at the MIME)S
56.7 494.5 M
(type. Which is nice in case you're working on a closed system in which you have control over both the)S
56.7 482.5 M
(rendering engine and the code it's rendering. And of course Apple and Google consider the whole internet)S
56.7 470.5 M
(their closed system in which they soon have control, with or without W3C. Combine that with a myriad of)S
56.7 458.5 M
(n00b web developers who bet on having moved on to something else when their standards-ignorant code)S
56.7 446.5 M
(hits the fan in a couple of years, and Flash seems like a good idea.)S
56.7 424.5 M
(The real issue is that with the propaganda of HTML5 as the set of new HTML and CSS combined with)S
56.7 412.5 M
(JavaScript APIs in a modern browser it hardly makes sense to define future HTML and CSS standards from)S
56.7 400.5 M
(the perspective of a platform that lacks JavaScript. If other browser vendors don't start supporting -webkit)S
56.7 388.5 M
(prefixes any JavaScript library provider could do the same thing by automatically providing a polyfill for it. If a)S
56.7 376.5 M
(site doesn't work without JavaScript anyway, the problem that it only uses the -webkit vendor prefixes is)S
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(academic.)S
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(by Roland van Ipenburg)S
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(http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/blog/posts/work/2012/02/12/dustin-curtis-is-an-asshole/)S
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