Getting Better

Jeff Croft recently blogged about the state of Web Standards and the (lack of) innovation. While I’m not going dive into the details at the moment, one thing stood out to me that I want to address. Jeff quotes Alex Russel:

In order for the future to be better by a large amount, it must be different by a large amount.

Wrong.

We do not go from this:

To this:

overnight. Things get better incrementally and not in huge jumps.