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Re: Encoding Standard (mostly complete)



On 2012-04-23 09:10, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:57:07 +0200, Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org> wrote:
>> Is that the goal hereā€”to help browser implementers compete with
>> Microsoft?
>
> In brief, the goal is to document the "web platform". So that existing
> implementations and new implementations have no trouble figuring out
> what to implement. In part that requires figuring out what existing
> content relies upon, which can determined to some extent by figuring out
> what the market leader is doing.

But then, Microsoft isn't the market leader anymore, right?

Given the combined market share of Chrome and Firefox, maybe it's not 
needed anymore to do exactly the same?

Best regards, Julian