- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 08:46:41 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Paul Libbrecht <paul@hoplahup.net>
- cc: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, Paul Libbrecht wrote: > > Could be slightly more formal? > You are speaking of "hypocrisy" but this seems like a matter of politeness, right? I am just saying that the W3C claims to have certain values, but only applies those values to other people, not to itself. Specifically, the W3C says forking specifications is bad (and even goes out of its way to disallow it for its own), but then turns around and does it to other people's specifications. hypocrysy (noun): The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense. I'm also claiming that when doing so, the W3C does not generally give credit where credit is due. For example, this document is basically written by Ms2ger: http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/innerhtml/raw-file/tip/index.html Here's the version maintained by Ms2ger, for comparison (the only differences I could find were editorial style issues, not even text -- basically just that the doc has been converted from the anolis style to the respec style): http://domparsing.spec.whatwg.org/ The most Ms2ger gets is a brief mention in the acknowledgements almost at the very end of the document. The WebApps working group gets a whole sentence above the fold: "This document was published by the Web Applications Working Group". The W3C has their logo right at the top and calls the draft a "W3C Editor's Draft". plagiarism (noun): The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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