- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:19:30 +0100
- To: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Shelley Powers wrote: > ... > Over my years of working for/with Boeing, Halliburton/Sierra Geophysics, > Standard Insurance, Weyerhauser, Nike, Intel, Multnomah County in > Oregon, John Hancock, Harvard University, Stanford University, > ExpressScripts, and others, most of the competent software engineers I > worked with made sure they thoroughly understood what they needed to > know, in order to do the job right. > > And most were usually competent enough to a) click a link, and b) > understand the concept of a link leading to another reference. > ... > Then the browser developers you describe are not what I consider to be > competent software engineers. Lazy, comes to mind. > > (And no, I don't think browser developers are incompetent, or lazy.) > ... +1 On the other hand, there's also lazy spec writing (in general, just not over here). For instance, many authors - when they link to other specs - apparently are too lazy to make their references precise (why should I add a section reference when the reader can figure that out him/herself?) Best regards, Julian
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