- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:06:45 -0500
- To: Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com>
- Cc: Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>, "public-html-xml@w3.org" <public-html-xml@w3.org>
Kurt Cagle scripsit: > May I make a recommendation. That's not a recommendation, it's a flame. > I do think, > however, that the general impression that many people have of this process > (speaking as someone who is setting standards within a large federal agency) > is that, as with many other aspects of HTML5, that this preoccupation with > reinventing the wheel to actively exclude XML is frankly getting old and is > throwing away a huge amount of accumulated knowledge about what works and > what doesn't, on the basis of what appears to be ego. Maybe I'm wrong - Wrong or not, the words "throwing away a huge amount of accumulated knowledge about what works and what doesn't" has been applied to both sides already. I suggest not going there again. As Spider Robinson says, it's not who picks the most potatoes, it's can we get the potatoes picked before winter comes. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan The penguin geeks is happy / As under the waves they lark The closed-source geeks ain't happy / They sad cause they in the dark But geeks in the dark is lucky / They in for a worser treat One day when the Borg go belly-up / Guess who wind up on the street.
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