- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:36:33 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: 'HTML WG' <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > ... >> That is incorrect. For instance, many document management systems run only in >> intranets, yet they still need to support a wide variety of user agents (not >> controlled by the vendors of these systems). > > Sure, but if there's a problem, the vendor gets called on it and fixes it. Incorrect again. The vendors of these systems have little control about the UA vendor's bug fixing (I'm talking from experience here). > No need for a standard there. This is unlike an open environment like the > Web where the consumer, the producer, and the UA vendor might have no > relationship whatsoever. Actually, it's very similar. > Again, I'm not saying a standard isn't useful in these cases, just that > supporting those cases isn't our goal, and can't be without compromising > on our other more important goals regarding the open Web, as discussed here: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Aug/0242.html Not sure what part of that mail you're referring to. In particular, I wasn't talking about supporting proprietary features likes ActiveX controls. BR, Julian
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