- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:50:49 -0700
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>
On Jun 2, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> Hi Leif, >> Your response takes the tone of a conspiracy theory. Things like >> your use of the word "hegemony" and your apparent belief that the >> Design Principles are an elaborate plot against the profile="" >> attribute make it hard to evaluate or respond to your feedback. >> In the past you've lumped Rob Sayre in the same "hegemony" as Ian, >> yet Rob has stated his strong opposition to many of Ian's actions >> as editor, and even wrote an alternate HTML5 draft that makes >> different decisions on what features are in or out. >> I can assure you that the Design Principles were not written with >> profile="" in mind. As one of the editors, I personally do not care >> either way about profile="", and I've certainly not made it my >> mission in life to stamp it out. In fact, if it were up to me, I >> would make use of profile="" conforming, if only to remove the need >> to argue about it further. >> I suggest you resubmit your feedback without the conspiratorial tone. > > I also take exception to the use of terms like "hegemony" (hey: am I > in on it too?), but would also like to add that public-html is > intended for technical discussion. People have a hard enough time > keeping up with the bandwidth as is, meta-discussion such as this > one should be taken off list, possibly copying www-archive in order > to allow others to see and/or refer to it. My apologies for the poor choice of forum. My substantive point stands - I'm not going to take a conspiracy theory seriously as feedback. Regards, Maciej
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