[indiejade]

Quote: "MySpace is a great example of this. I'm pretty sure that their custom profile page layouts were an accident. They didn't know enough to properly escape the text that people put on their profiles, and that allowed their users to start including arbitrary html and css in their pages."

Accidental is a good theory. It's always nice to poke fun at MySpace. http://www.zentu.net/open-space/myspace.png

I sometimes wonder how it's possible for something like this to happen on such a wide or popular scale -- does Microsoft seriously control or influence that much of the W3 standards for compliance?

(edit -- sorry. I've obviously been writing far too much HTML lately.)

[aston]

When you own the browser market, whatever you implement becomes the de facto standard.