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W3C standards
by 3rdalbum on Wed 25th Mar 2009 10:41 UTC
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I don't blame any browser manufacturer for deciding if and when to implement a new W3C 'standard'. The W3C creates virtually a new 'standard' every day for all sorts of completely inane things that maybe one or two people want to do with a web browser.

XForms? Timed Text? XML Events? OWL? Pronunciation Lexicon Specification? These are just a couple of examples of ill-considered, difficult-to-understand or completely useless W3C "standards" that have failed to take hold and as such as of absolutely no use to anybody. If Internet Explorer's developers tried to implement all these W3C 'standards', they wouldn't have time to add essential browsing features such as tabbed browsing and Javascript.

So, good on Microsoft for drawing the line somewhere. If Acid3 is finalised, then support it. Until then, assume it's another XAdES.

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