- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:59:11 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "public-html@w3.org Tracking WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Sam Ruby wrote: > Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > > > We should interpret the charter as covering all reasonable application > > and document features. Otherwise, we will have to recharter every time > > someone realizes we are missing important functionality that doesn't > > already have a detailed line item in the charter. > > Such a charter interpretation creates a good chance of HTML5 never being > complete. There are a lot of ideas that somebody out there considers > reasonable. And next year, there will be more. I don't think that's a real danger. We can always say "no". Indeed, that has been the default answer to almost all proposals since work on HTML5 started in 2003/2004; an idea usually has to have a lot of demand to get beyond the proposal stage. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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