Yahoo Newswire picked up the story. ZDNet provided nice, brief coverage, and pointed to their Web Interoperability Pledge as testament to the fact that they share our goals. David J. Eisenberg published a compelling personal assessment of our goals on his site. The Japanese press chimed in late this evening. So did the Brazilian press.
More foreign press comes from Denmark and the Czech Republic.
Web developers push for browser standard A group of Web developers is urging the top browser makers to make their software comply with existing Web standards, which should make Web development cheaper and faster. Because the leading browsers behave differently, developers must often build several different versions of a site so that every visitor can use it. ''Web development costs are 25 percent greater than necessary because of all the different work-arounds we've got to build for different browsers,'' said Glenn Davis, a Web developer and member of the coalition. Now if we could only translate it . . . Cross-browser standards would allow every developer to utilize the latest technology with out having to create a plethora of different versions for all of the various browsers available today, thus minimizing development time and costs. Netscape och Microsoft.