- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 19:18:29 -0500
- To: Lucas Adamski <ladamski@mozilla.com>
- Cc: public-web-security@w3.org
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Lucas Adamski <ladamski@mozilla.com> wrote: > No they don't. But there are many other actors in play.. blogs, how-to > guides, magazines, books. The authors of which can and do see their > responsibility as translating specs into things web developers and > admins can use. Those sources will probably not copy over our warnings about things that could theoretically go wrong, though. At least judging by what I've seen. They'll mostly stick to practical advice like "This feature will do X in browser A and Y in browser B", not "this feature is theoretically defined to do anything from this range of things". And lots of authors will learn by just copy-pasting without reading any documentation at all. We just don't have control over the message web developers are going to get. Web platform features need to work the same in all browsers so that authors don't have to test in different browsers -- that's the most painful part of web development and is what we need to avoid wherever possible.
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