- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:05:25 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Julian Reschke wrote: > > Well, HTML5 drops a feature of HTML4. *Somebody* decided to do so. HTML5 started from a clean slate. Nothing was dropped. However, the decision I was referring to was the decision of what to do with the recent feedback, which I assume introduced new information that I haven't yet dealt with. > IMHO, when revising something important as HTML, the right approach is > to leave things as they were, until you have a consensus for a change. > Unfortunately this is not the case with how HTML5 is developed right > now. Indeed, that isn't at all the approach HTML5 has taken. We started with a clean slate and had to justify everything we added. I disagree that this is a bad way of doing things, but to each his own. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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