Archive What If? Blag Store About A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. xkcd updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Standards |< < Prev Random Next > >| |< < Prev Random Next > >| Permanent link to this comic: http://xkcd.com/927/ Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png HOW STANDARDS PROLIFERATE (See: A C chargers, character encodings, instant messaging, etc.) SITUATION: There are 14 competing standards. Geek: 14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases. Fellow Geek: Yeah! Soon: SITUATION: There are 15 competing standards. {{Title text: Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.}} http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=108489 Might be MIME dependent. Search...