Open?

• JavaScript, VBScript, ActiveX, Java are all proprietary products
• All have market weight to be called ``standards''
• Some vendors are more committed to developing standards than others
• Some vendors are more committed to following standards than others
• Many ``standards'' are still Internet Engineering Task Force ``Requests For Comments''
• Some ``standards'' may be accepted by standards bodies such as IEEE, but slowly

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Jan Newmarch