Web standards

- The Web Standards Project was really a reaction to the fact that browsers were completely incompatible with each other. - Making redundant versions of the same code and asking the user to have the knowledge of which browser they're using, and decide which version of the site they wanted to go to; that's a bit much. - There was that transitional phase of, hey, we can be part of this conversation, and a whole lot of people saying, what do you mean, you can be part of a conversation? This isn't a conversation. This is they build stuff and we have to deal with what they give us. Within the Web Standards Project, it was pretty much well, we're going to try anyway. - We were able to raise our voices and yell, and say these things are standards. This is the only rational way forward. Is for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to be completely supported. - A lot of people told them they were crazy, that there was no economic incentive, there was no reason why browser vendors should ever be compatible…