- From: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 14:56:21 +0100
- To: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
- Cc: public-w3process@w3.org
On Mar 2, 2012, at 19:27 , Philippe Le Hegaret wrote: > In a recent private discussion spawned from one on a W3C mailing list, I > was defending the "living standard" model we use at the WHATWG for > developing the HTML standard (where we just have a standard that we > update more or less every day to make it better and better) as opposed > to the "snapshot" model the W3C traditionally uses where one has a > "draft" that nobody is supposed to implement, and when it's "ready", > that draft is carved in stone and placed on a pedestal. The usual > argument is something like "engineering depends on static definitions, > because otherwise communication becomes unreliable". I wrote a lengthy > reply. I include it below, in case anyone is interested. This post could have been a good start for an interesting discussion, but sadly Ian's definition of the "snapshot" model is largely a fantasy-grade strawman so there doesn't seem to be that much room for talking. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon Coming up soon: I'm teaching a W3C online course on Mobile Web Apps http://www.w3devcampus.com/writing-great-web-applications-for-mobile/
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