Posted by Tim Auton on 06/07/06 14:32

NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote:
>John C. Randolph wrote:
>> On 2006-05-30 06:41:21 -0700, NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> said:
>>
>>> No. Ideally, Microsoft and Apple should come together and draft a new
>>> DRM music format that will be compatible on all future MP3 players,
>>> whether iPod or any other brand - and license the playback part of the
>>> technology to player manufacturers really chrap.
>>
>> Request denied.
>
>Pity. What MP3 players are doing right now is just a modern
>interpretation of the 1990's "browser wars". Those pretty much came to
>an end when the W3 introduced CSS.

CSS became a W3C recommendation in 1996. Microsoft were still on IE3
at that time and Netscape was the dominant browser. Microsoft's
onslaught on the browser market didn't start till the release of IE4
which was in 1998 IIRC.


Tim
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