Re: Non-goal for HTML: Picture-perfect rendering

Magnus Kristiansen schrieb:
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> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:26:19 +0200, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org> wrote:
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>> As I said in the past, even if done by this WG, I have the feeling 
>> that it would speed up the process to make it a small individual 
>> specification.
>> As an example, Web API has been quite quick for XMLHttpRequest Object.
>>
>> # The XMLHttpRequest Object
>>
>> * first draft at W3C
>>    W3C Working Draft 05 April 2006
>> * Last Call
>>    W3C Working Draft 27 February 2007
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> The XHR spec is also a "specify what is currently in use" spec, similar 
> to what a canvas spec would be. The 10 months to reach first LC 
> contrasts quite a bit with the earlier message about a canvas standard:

Actually, that's not completely true. In some places it specifies "what 
is currently in use", sometimes not. IMHO, this is one of the bigger 
problems with that spec: it doesn't offer clean replacement interfaces 
for things that are broken in (some of) today's implementations...

> ...

Best regards, Julian