XAML: I thought the fight was almost over.
Posted by dminor Fri, 24 Oct 2003 22:47:00 GMT
Who knows where the web is heading? There are a lot of people who have been working very hard to unify web standards and convince major corporations to follow them. It’s best for everyone.
Eric Meyer shared his thoughts on XAML which are pretty frightening. He writes:
If XAML lives up to its potential, Microsoft won’t need the W3C any more. Why should they play by the open community’s rules when they can create their own very lucrative and highly controlled gated community?
Well, that’s not the dream I have for the web! If this comes to pass, it just proves how selfish and cut-throat Microsoft really is (not that they haven’t already proven that). Sadly, that could drive me completely away from web development. That whole era of “HTML4 proprietary tag” hassle was hard enough to deal with the first time around.
Eric says, “I may, at long last, be caught in the crushing, extending embrace.” You won’t be alone Eric.
