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standardsstandardsPosted Aug 23, 2011 16:03 UTC (Tue) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)In reply to: Mozilla launches WebAPI by landley Parent article: Mozilla launches WebAPI
Although this cartoon will seem very familiar to anyone who has worked on standardisation, it is not the inevitable outcome of every such effort.
ISO 9660 CDs are everywhere, and only when its inherent size limits began to become frustrating did a newer standard take some mindshare.
USB Mass Storage has been a tremendous success. If you introduced a new USB storage device that requires vendor drivers today you wouldn't stand a chance.
ISO 10646 also, has essentially no rivals (there are several anti-Unicode efforts but none of them has any traction)
And of course I wouldn't be writing this here, and you wouldn't be reading it, without at least TCP/IP and HTTP.
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