- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:46:40 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: "Ennals, Robert" <robert.ennals@intel.com>, HTMLwg <public-html@w3.org>
On 17.03.2010 09:40, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Julian Reschke wrote: >>> >>> It would be hugely irresponsible for us to leave HTML unmaintained >>> while still in use. I'm shocked anyone in the standards community >>> would even consider anything different. Specs must be living >>> documents. >> >> I'm considering anything different because I look at the past and there >> wasn't a WG for a long time. > > The only time there hasn't been a working group responsible for HTML was > briefly in the early 90s, and as far as I can tell even if there was no > working group, there were still people working on it the whole time (e.g. > Tim and Dan). HTML 4.01 hasn't been maintained at all until the new WG was started, as far as I can tell. > Now certainly sometimes the relevant working group doesn't spend as much > time working on errata as one would hope (e.g. HTML4's errata was somewhat > left alone from 2000 to 2003), but even that didn't stop extensions from > being coordinated, it just happened elsewhere. So past experience suggests > such problems are self-correcting. Ah, "elsewhere". Just one more word: "canvas". Best regards, Julian
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