- From: Giuseppe Pascale <giuseppep@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 08:41:30 +0100
- To: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote: > >On Oct 30, 2011, at 3:01 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > >> (However, I have a hard time believing that there'd be key-value >pairs >> that wouldn't be useful for Web content but would be good ideas for >> multivendor walled gardens like cable TV. That is, I'm predisposed to >> assume that either HTML is missing features that should be defined in >> HTML proper or the additional features are bad ideas and shouldn't be >> specced by DLNA, either. > >I very much agree with this comment. > >The worst thing for those of us trying to make use of the web platform >in new contexts (such as on TVs) is to have to read and understand >thousands of pages of minor differences and extensions specified by >umpteen different and opaque standards organizations. > >Certainly, some of the devices those groups are concerned with have >features and capabilities that haven't traditionally been present on >PCs running desktop browsers, but this shouldn't stop people bringing >those extensions here to enable access to those capabilities in a >consistent way. > >...Mark I couldn't agree more. This is also the reason why the web&tv IG got created,as a place to discuss needs to be eventually brought to the attention of related working groups.
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