Sunday, August 13, 2006

Can't Amaya be Developed as a Reference Implementation for Web Standards

Why can't Amaya be developed as a reference implementation of latest Web Standards (XHTML, CSS etc) from which other browsers (Firefox, Opera, IE & Others) can follow. Why is W3C not strict about its members not following proper Web Standards? Why is W3C not caring about thus? If browser vendors has to follow the latest Web Standards then W3C should be strict as in XHTML Strict.

Why can't this happen?
The Web Standards can be brought in line like J2EE Standards. In which the J2EE standards are devised by the JCP and the JCP provides a reference implementation of the standard which is followed by the Vendors. W3C can also provide such reference implementation (like Amaya). W3C can also provide compitability certificates as done in J2EE World. Only browsers that carry the W3C mark can sustain in the browser market as done in the J2EE world.

Since, Amaya is already an Open Source project it is possible to make it as a reference implementation of the current Web Standard. W3C should be open and should always provide Open Standards. W3C should have members from the Open Souce communities to make the Web Standard a real standard.

I don't understand why W3C has deviced so many version of a Web Standard before the previous one gets matured. If this is the rate at which web technologies are developed why don't it be released in a phased manner (Alpha,Beta,Stable) as done in Software Industry.

When will a web developer get a good soluuon for the current Web Standards?