Comments on: Internet Explorer Collection – Use multiple IE versions at the same time – Why I hate open web standards

By: Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:14:58 +0000

Anders, I disagree with this: “Open standards has the benefit of creating a large shared “api”, compared to closed standards.”

Windows is a closed standard and the largest “shared API” I know of. Usually closed standards work much better with regards to APIs because one organization has the power to make sure that everyone complies with the standard.

By: Anders Gregersen

Anders Gregersen — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:34:44 +0000

Open standards has the benefit of creating a large shared “api”, compared to closed standards. With closed standards it would be much more like SQL Server vs. Oracle. Where you had to know which browser at specific site supported.

Bare in mind that most video is based on MPEG4 today and contain different wrapping like mov, avi, mkv, divx, xvid.

And even though W3C is slow, why are the browser vendors still having a hard time complying to the standards? Imagine DVD/BD players with the same compatibility level? Sorry this movie looks best on player A and C. If you want surround sound you must be using play B or C rev 2.

Development of standards might not be as fast as some want, but as the pace of developement increase, our understanding and use of it drops. We all know it takes time to master a language and most don’t keep up with new version due to the increased size of what you need to know.

By: Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:45:57 +0000

I think digital video is a good example. I use quite few different players and it works perfectly fine without open standards.

By: bobbrown

bobbrown — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:52:01 +0000

Sounds like the current state of digital video.

I hate Quicktime and RealPlayer because they have grabbed a share of the market and strong-armed users to install their adware.