- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:49:26 +0200
- To: "Mark S. Miller" <erights@google.com>
- CC: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, es-discuss <es-discuss@mozilla.org>, Douglas Crockford <douglas@crockford.com>, "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>, Norbert Lindenberg <w3@norbertlindenberg.com>, Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>
On 17/04/2013 17:56 , Mark S. Miller wrote: > Hi Anne, promises were already in progress for ES7. It was the w3c that > chose to fork the effort rather than participate and provide feedback. Just to be crystal clear here, the W3C hasn't done anything at this point. DOMFutures currently only exist in a WHATWG spec. Given W3C's close and cosy relationship with WHATWG though, I certainly expect groups to start using it pretty much immediately so I understand if you might see that as a distinction without a difference. Having said that, the only reason we're collectively having what might amount to a form of turf war is because we're all tilling the same turf, and despite having goals that are overwhelmingly the same we're doing so from somewhat distant houses. I don't think that Anne's comment stemmed from some form of imperialistic view of W3C taking over everything (that's not quite like him :), but rather simply intended to point out that it would be simpler if we did all of this under a common roof. Indeed, we can make plans for coordination as we just did, but coordination happens because there's a disconnect. Removing the disconnect can be helpful too. I have no idea what the politics of such a rapprochement would look like, and I can certainly imagine a variegated spectrum of modalities for it. I just want to point out that if there's interest, there are people over here happy to help make it happen. At the end of the day we just want a better platform with the minimum cost in bureaucracy. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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