- From: John Joseph Bachir <jjb@ibiblio.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:12:23 -0400 (EDT)
- To: public-html@w3.org
As a web developer and someone who cares very passionately about the web, I must say the idea of Microsoft involvement on this WG, especially in a co-chair capacity, bothers me. I expect that a majority of the people on this list would agree that Microsoft, and IE in particular, have held the web back for the past decade. I do not mean this as a personal criticism of anyone on this list, or even of the IE dev team. I understand that market forces, software engineering constraints, and many other variables of which I am not aware, are involved in IE's pathetic featureset and development cycles. (Chris has a very tough job, and is doing it better than I could). But: I do think it would be appropriate for Microsoft to explicitly identify their purpose for involvement in this WG. Presumably it is to help develop a standard... Do they then intend to implement this standard? I wish that question sounded funny. Why give Microsoft a voice on a standards development effort, when they have yet to implement several other years-old, painstakingly-designed standards that we all think are important, and that HAVE been implemented by several other projects with significantly fewer resources? -- John Bachir http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/ http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org/ aim/yim/msn/jabber.org/gtalk: johnjosephbachir 713-494-2704 irc://irc.freenode.net/lyceum
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