Bjoern, On 21/08/06, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: > * Mark Birbeck wrote: > >My response was simply that it is irrelevant whether people want to > >produce good web sites or bad--that's up to them, and the job of > >standards bodies should be to provide functionality to be used by > >authors, not set themselves up as some kind of priesthood. > > The CSS Working Group does not provide functionality to authors, browser > vendors and other CSS implementers do. If they decide that some feature > is not going to be offered to authors because it encourages authors to > write content that performs poorly in their applications, then there is > no point in helping them to offer the feature interoperably through new > specifications, test suites, and so on. But how do features 'encourage' authors to write poorly performing applications? It's education and samples that do that. Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck CEO x-port.net Ltd. e: Mark.Birbeck@x-port.net t: +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 w: http://www.formsPlayer.com/ b: http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/ Download our XForms processor from http://www.formsPlayer.com/Received on Monday, 21 August 2006 16:21:24 GMT
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