- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:35:46 +0900
- To: www-archive@w3.org
Nice Interesting reading, it sounds familiar. but it was 10 years ago. :) [[[ "We started with a simple plan," W3C's Dave Raggett explains. "We'd only put in things that were being used as of January 1st, 1996. That isn't a particularly ambitious undertaking, but it got the project off to a good start. Also we decided that the joint spec didn't have to specify everything. It just had to specify things that we felt comfortable about. "In a sense it was a reverse-engineering assignment," Dan Connolly, the group's chair adds. "We wanted to take what people were already doing and write it up. Basically we had to decide which elements we were going to bless." By concentrating on existing practice only, the ERB was able to get a non-controversial start. But were they just laying down track after the train had gone by? ]]] -- W3C Journal http://www.w3journal.com/5/s1.discussn.html Wed, 23 Jul 1997 21:38:45 GMT Many other interesting things to read in Advancing HTML: Style and Substance Volume 2, Issue 1 (Winter 1997) http://www.w3journal.com/5/toc.html -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/ *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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