- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:45:27 -0700
- To: tina@greytower.net
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Apr 30, 2007, at 2:30 PM, Tina Holmboe wrote: > > Does that mean we should add FONT to the standard? The WHAT WG > seem to > think so - I disagree; as does most everyone I know who work with > the > web. > I would like the HTML standard to document the reality of the Web, not some idealized imaginary version of the Web. What good is a standard that - if implemented by itself - results only in a toy browser that can't render the real Web? How is that standard helpful to anyone? > I'm afraid that if we /do/ make HTML 5 what the browser vendors are > willing, able, and eager to implement then we'll not get anything > /other/ than what they want. > What browser vendors want is usually what Web site authors are telling us that they want. > That's not enough. We /also/ need things in the specs that browser > vendors might not want, or to do things in ways /they/ don't > want; but > users might still need, require, wish ... this is a two-way street. > If enough content authors want a feature, then clearly it would be of interest to browser vendors as well. I'm not sure why you are singling out browser vendors as a unique audience. We have no interest in adding features that content authors wouldn't use. We'd just be bloating our products for no reason if we did that. dave (hyatt@apple.com)
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