Re: Integration of HTM

Hi Richard,

So I talked with David Bolter about his feelings regarding this proposal.
Apparently he has expressed concern about the complexity of this proposal
and did not back up the statement that this had "agreement from the Mozilla
accessibility people".

He had however agreed to look at implementing a prototype of this proposal.

/ Jonas

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>wrote:

> I have agreement from the Mozilla accessibility people and the Apple
> accessibility people who actually attend the calls and do the work.
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> Rich Schwerdtfeger
> Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
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>     *Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>*
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> Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
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> Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>,
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> Re: Integration of HTM
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <*schwer@us.ibm.com*<schwer@us.ibm.com>>
> wrote:
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>    Ian,
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>    The group has heard your comments. We don't agree with you. I am not
>    going to have another email discussion dragged into the weeds like what has
>    happened on summary. I think we have had adequate discussion on the topic
>    and this will be part of the proposal we go forward with.
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>    We have agreement from Apple, Microsoft, IBM, and Mozilla and we are
>    working on an implementation.
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> Please note that there is no such thing as "agreement from Mozilla". The
> mozilla community is composed of individuals that often differ in opinion.
> In matters of web standards we usually don't form an "official mozilla
> position" or any thing like that. So while there very well might be people
> at mozilla that support this proposal, it is not "agreement from Mozilla".
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> Personally I have the same reaction as Ian.
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> I'll also note that Maciej is from Apple and appears not to like this
> proposal either. However I don't know what Apples policy is on these things.
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> Best Regards,
> Jonas Sicking
> Mozilla
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