1 CLS compliance is a new twist on that least common denominator approach to interoperability. The CLS specification is a subset of operations that every language must support.

2 This gives applications that want wide portability a guaranteed least common denominator.

3 Either they make their applications accessible and simple enough for least common denominator - or risk losing out to competitors who do.

4 When working with XML data, you need to parse the data to get to the least common denominator—the desired data (or atomic node value, as it is often called).

5 How, then, do you provide a view that is intelligent enough to take into account all these device variations without resorting to one that supports only the least common denominator of capabilities?

6 Group work is simply frustrating and suboptimal, time is wasted, and results never exceed a least common denominator outcome.