Vendor participation and W3Conf browser panel

Hi there,

after watching the panel (thanks for the stream), I realized two things 
I might have asked when I would have been there...:

a) We were told that people should file bugs when things are broken in 
specs or products. This works great for specs and "open" products like 
FF/Chrome/Webkit, but not very well for the other browsers. All of these 
have channels to report problems, but as far as I can tell, most of them 
are black holes; you never get feedback and in some cases, you can't 
even check the status (be it because it's only email, or because the 
vendor closes reports as Duplicate and then doesn't give you access to 
the ticket that it was a Duplicate of).

b) I'm relatively happy with the feedback that we get from most of the 
browser developers. On the other hand, it seems to be next to impossible 
to get feedback from their services counterparts (I'm looking at you, 
Exchange and GMail). It would be great if the browser teams could 
encourage their colleagues working on services to participate.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 18 November 2011 09:44:51 UTC