Comments on: Tim Berners-Lee Finally Takes Action Against Patents on the Web http://techrights.org/2012/02/15/renowned-innovator-vs-swpats/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Michael http://techrights.org/2012/02/15/renowned-innovator-vs-swpats/comment-page-1/#comment-132441 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:21:31 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=58182#comment-132441 Forks happen.

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By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2012/02/15/renowned-innovator-vs-swpats/comment-page-1/#comment-132440 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:21:04 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=58182#comment-132440 Let’s not forget the whole Webkit-KHTML story, either.

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By: DaemonFC http://techrights.org/2012/02/15/renowned-innovator-vs-swpats/comment-page-1/#comment-132439 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:08:33 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=58182#comment-132439 It is a problem when they suggest that people use their own additions to web standards.

The vendor prefix for CSS items that have not been approved as standards are there to encourage people to test them out, not call them on actual sites meant to be viewed by the public.

It’s good that we have an implementation of these things in free software (Webkit), but it’s still only one step up from what was going on with Internet Explorer.

In this case, the Webkit project can make anything they want a de facto standard, bypassing the standards approval process of the W3C and forcing other browsers to implement things that have no public standard or simply render the broken sites in standards compliance mode and baffle users when the page in question is garbled.

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By: Michael http://techrights.org/2012/02/15/renowned-innovator-vs-swpats/comment-page-1/#comment-132438 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:50:17 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=58182#comment-132438 Webkit is open source and does not threaten the open web.

What silliness.

I thought you were *for* open software and standards!

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