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MS is the one promoting standards
NonZealot 10th Aug 2009
Microsoft has never been particularly keen on supporting real standards, they've always preferred their own formats to maintain their monopoly.

Mozilla and Apple are the ones who didn't want to support "real" standards and instead, starting coming up with their own. From the article:
The formal HTML standard is under the governance of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and Microsoft's Chris Wilson is a co-chairman of the W3C group developing HTML. But much of the course of HTML 5 has been set so far outside that by a separate effort called the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), which browser makers launched years ago when they didn't like the XHTML 2.0 direction the W3C was trying to take HTML

MS is on the W3C which is the owner of the HTML standard. It is Mozilla and Apple that, and I quote, didn't like the XHTML 2.0 direction the W3C was trying to take HTML and decided to create their own, non standard format. I prefer Firefox so I'm not pro-MS or anti-Mozilla but in this case, MS is the one working with the standard and Mozilla and Apple are the ones who are "going their own way".
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