- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:48:37 +0000
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> wrote: > And the idea that a language specification and technical standard should > “ideally” have “a set of steps introduced with a MUST requirement, which can > be blindly implemented with little thought, with no interpretation needed” > is itself counter-productive; the areas where the HTML specification does so > are harmful, produce normative requirements which are harmfully > over-restrictive as to implementation technique or wind up over-specifying > requirements in ways that are ultimately anti-competitive. Maybe this is off-topic for this list, but I've seen this notion of over-specification being anti-competitive raised before. Can you explain why that is specifically? Adam
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