- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:13:22 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>, Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Julian Reschke wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > ... Specification authors -- the W3C, the IETF, the WHATWG, you, me -- > > have _zero power_ to enforce implementors to do what we put in our > > specs. We only get what we write to be implemented if what we write is > > what implementors are willing to implement. (This is why I work so > > closely with browser vendors and other implementors to find out what > > they want.) ... > > That makes it sound as if implementors never ever implement things they > don't want to implement. This may be true for browser implementors, but > certainly is not true in general. I think it's true in any market where deployment happens regardless of conformance. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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