Comments on: A new way of writing a standard http://rc3.org/2009/07/07/a-new-way-of-writing-a-standard/ Rafe Colburn on software development (and other topics) Wed, 23 May 2012 22:44:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Joe Crawford http://rc3.org/2009/07/07/a-new-way-of-writing-a-standard/comment-page-1/#comment-6025 Joe Crawford Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:57:54 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=9729#comment-6025 <p>I like that this makes explicit (or may make explicit) what is already implicit. It's intriguing and I'm curious to see if the veto power will actually used.</p> I like that this makes explicit (or may make explicit) what is already implicit. It’s intriguing and I’m curious to see if the veto power will actually used.

]]> By: Stephen http://rc3.org/2009/07/07/a-new-way-of-writing-a-standard/comment-page-1/#comment-6020 Stephen Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:18:56 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=9729#comment-6020 <p><p>I don't really agree with formal objection, wasn't XHTML2 the spec for things that weren't implemented in browsers?</p></p> <p><p>I think there's a resistance to the idea that HTML5 might be about the web as it's used and going to be used in the near future by web developers rather than the theoretical ivory tower web that only exists in the occasional well funded institute. I think the lapse of development in HTML over the last 10 years has created the notion that HTML5 is a monolith, a one shot deal for HTML, when it seems to me that the W3C/WhatWG intend to be much more active caretakers of HTML from here on in.</p></p> <p>I don’t really agree with formal objection, wasn’t XHTML2 the spec for things that weren’t implemented in browsers?</p>

<p>I think there’s a resistance to the idea that HTML5 might be about the web as it’s used and going to be used in the near future by web developers rather than the theoretical ivory tower web that only exists in the occasional well funded institute. I think the lapse of development in HTML over the last 10 years has created the notion that HTML5 is a monolith, a one shot deal for HTML, when it seems to me that the W3C/WhatWG intend to be much more active caretakers of HTML from here on in.</p>

]]> By: Nathan L. Walls http://rc3.org/2009/07/07/a-new-way-of-writing-a-standard/comment-page-1/#comment-6015 Nathan L. Walls Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:45:02 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=9729#comment-6015 <p>Since the announcement of the video deciscion with the proximate timing of the XHTML2 Working Group not being renewed, I see HTML5 as a sort of UN and the browser manufacturers as the permanent members of the Security Council, for better or worse.</p> Since the announcement of the video deciscion with the proximate timing of the XHTML2 Working Group not being renewed, I see HTML5 as a sort of UN and the browser manufacturers as the permanent members of the Security Council, for better or worse.

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