Ian Hickson wrote: > However, the assumptions that namespace prefixes are bad and that handling > errors in a fatal manner is bad are both assumptions that we have taken as > fundamental in the HTML5 work since 2003, [...] "We" ? This WG did not exist in 2003. I think you must be referring to another group. > If evidence to turn these assumptions around were indeed to come up, then > this would have a massive effect on the HTML5 spec, and would probably put > us back at least 6 months so that we could reengineer the spec to be > designed with the new principles in mind. Which would be no bad thing. Far better to delay by six months than to rush to release something that is fundamentally flawed. > In cases where there is no consensus, we need to pick a choice and go > with it, How does can you reconcile this statement with the fact that this WG is a pat of the W3C, one of whose core values is the importance of consensus [1] ? Philip TAYLOR -------- [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/policies#ConsensusReceived on Tuesday, 29 July 2008 10:44:27 GMT
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