- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:07:22 +0200
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Rob Sayre <rsayre@mozilla.com>, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Feb 6, 2009, at 08:31, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > On Feb 5, 2009, at 7:01 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> Henri said that <font> is out for ideological reasons. That was a >> claim about the non-WHATWG people, mostly. Then you offered the >> "alternative" description that WHATWG started from zero. That to me >> is simply a confirmation of what Henri said - namely that WHATWG >> represents the non-ideological voice. > > I am pretty sure Henri was referring to Ian Hickson's ideology > (specifically strong belief in separating presentation from content) > when he referred to <font> being out for ideological reasons. I > don't think he meant to insult non-WHATWG participants, Maciej's interpretation is what I meant. (However, I think in addition to Hixie's own strong belief, there's a public relations component catering to the strong belief of readers of A List Apart and affiliated publications.) In the interest of being fair and balanced, I note that Hixie disagreed with my assessment on IRC and said the non-conformance of <font> is motivated by the Media Independence design priciple. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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