- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:05:26 -0700
- To: ian@hixie.ch
- Cc: raman@google.com, www-style@w3.org, public-appformats@w3.org
Ian Hickson writes: > This allows all these technologies to develop in parallel, with UAs > supporting the versions that the market demand pushes them to support. > Which effectively makes interoperability impossible, since each vendor will go off and support his favorite version snapshot -- and claim "that's the market demand" --- and in practice everyone will try to be bug-compatible with the majority market-holder. That is of course the status-quo --- but if it is the status-quo -- then one needn't bother with specs anyway ... > Cheers, > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ GTalk: raman@google.com, tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc Google: tv+raman
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