[Gllug] [OT?] Please sign my Google petition ...

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 03:11:06PM +0100, Amias Channer wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 14:06:56 +0100
> Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
> 
> > ... if you believe in it, of course.
> > 
> > http://www.PetitionOnline.com/googhtml/petition.html
> 
> where you say :
> "The next version of Windows will do away with these standards altogether,
> replacing them with a proprietary version of HTML which will require
> expensive Microsoft-only browsers and servers. "
> 
> A link a source for that info would be usefull otherwise it does end up
> sounding a bit rhetorical ( i don't doubt if for a second BTW) and may
> put people off signing .

Unfortunately it doesn't look like you can edit petitions after
they've been put online.  Doh!

You might want to have a look around on the web for some articles
about XAML.  Amazingly this is already being called the "de-facto"
choice for implementing web applications, despite (a) not being
available, and (b) XUL already existing.

Rich.

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