- From: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:30:05 -0500
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: "Dailey, David P." <david.dailey@sru.edu>, Eliot Graff <eliotgra@microsoft.com>, public-html@w3.org, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>, Frank Olivier <franko@microsoft.com>, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Dailey, David P. wrote: > >> Hostility? Hmmm... I didn't see that here. Can you direct us to specific >> referents? > > This is why I said "past attitude". I'd like to know what the current > attitude is. > > (Some of the past material I am referring to include Chris Wilson's strong > advocacy to remove all of canvas from the spec and indeed from the HTML > Working Group entirely; his statements that it might not be possible to > implement on top of GDI; and his raising of vague patent concerns.) > > I don't want to go digging through the archives and the Web for smoking > guns, I'd just like to understand Microsoft's current intent. If the goal is > to edit a spec that every browser but IE implements, then as one of Apple's > representatives I am not comfortable with that. If Microsoft is interested > in coming into the canvas-implementing fold, then I am much more positively > disposed. > That's a concern. I thought that Apple turned over the Canvas element to the HTML WG. I wasn't aware that there were strings attached. > Regards, > Maciej > Shelley
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