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[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:36:24 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> "Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message
> news:i8gj1i$28h4$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>>> Indeed, here are just a few things I hate to bits about CSS:
>>
>> Sure, but we're kind of stuck with it. While we can invent a new
>> programming language, I don't think that inventing a new browser markup
>> language is going to get any traction without convincing Microsoft,
>> Google, and Apple to all get on board.
> 
> Microsoft would never know it existed.
> 
> Goggle would steal it and re-invent a crappy version of it.
> 
> Apple would put a note in their developer-license-agreement prohibiting
> it.
> 
> Sun would release a whitepaper that attempted to explain why it wasn't
> needed, but in their attempt they would accidentally make it clear it
> was a good idea after all.
> 
> Oracle would create a not-terrible-but-not-great version of it and have
> their salesmen spend a couple million each convincing middle and upper
> managers to pay twenty million for it each. Most of them would fall for
> it.
> 
> Sony would form a committee to investigate the feasibility of
> introducing DRM capabilities into it.
> 
> No one would ever notice if IBM did or didn't do anything with it.
> 
> Hobbyist developers would flock towards a newly-created alternate
> version that seemed simpler at first glance, but was much slower and
> really just made it easier to introduce subtle bugs.
> 
> W3C would form a committee to standardize it. Their early
> recommendations would combine the worst aspects of all the various
> versions. The final draft would be nearly identical to the early drafts,
> but wouldn't be finalized until the original committee's grandchildren
> were in retirement facilities.
> 
> Adobe would create a mediocre, bloated, yet passable
> child-window-fiesta-of-an-app to deal with it and charge hundreds for
> it. It would be enormously popular.
> 
> The people formerly from JASC would create a great alternative to
> Adobe's offering at a reasonable price, and after no one bought it they
> would kill it off by selling the rights to the dying carcass of some
> formerly-relevant corporation.
> 
> Corel...ah ha ha ha ha! Corel...That's a joke that doesn't need a
> punchline.
> 
> Hasbro Interactive would buy the rights to one of the older versions,
> and sue any individuals and small businesses that had anything similar.
> Then they would sell the rights.
> 
> Steve Yegge will have something to say about it, but no one will know or
> care what it is because by the time they finish reading his post the
> universe will have ended. But he'll still maintain that his long-winded
> approach was "good marketing".

:D