Re: Developer and Public Editions Re: Differences between the W3C and WHATWG specifications

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:51:51 +0200, Karl Dubost <karl+w3c@la-grange.net>  
wrote:
> Le 18 juin 2010 à 03:27, Anne van Kesteren a écrit :
>> Don't developers/designers want to know the latest details too? E.g.  
>> that "autobuffer" is now named "preload" and takes a different value?
>
> The majority of them is working in Web agencies and/or big companies  
> structure. Only a few are in startup playing with the last generation of  
> technology. The constraints of their work make big parts of the  
> technology make the last feature a dream more than a daily reality that  
> they have to use.
> For those who are willing to invest the time with the last minute  
> information, they will see the Implementer Edition.

If you don't play with the latest why would you be interested in  
specifications that are still in development? And why the assumption that  
the snapshot would reflect reality more than the latest draft? Often  
changes to the latest draft are made based on finding out that  
implementations implemented something different from the snapshot.


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Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/

Received on Friday, 18 June 2010 10:04:24 UTC