- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:31:24 +0100
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:42:43 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Jim Ley wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:54:02 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > >> It is the concensus of the members. > > > > How was this consensus reached? > > Over a beer in a San Jose bar, if I'm not mistaken. I thought the process was open, and the only communication method was the mailing list - but we've gone over this... > > As I've said before, I do not feel HTC's are an appropriate mechanism > > for providing this sort of support in a release environment. > > Nobody is forcing you to use HTCs. :-) Just don't stop anyone else from > using them. I'm not, you're rejecting the built in extension mechanisms of HTML, because of dubious requirements about HTC's. This is my problem. There's still a reason to use HTC's with the object solution, it's just not obvious with OBJECT in your examples. > > So it's the expectation of the WHAT-WG that users of Mozilla, Safari and > > Opera will get a severely degraded experience unless they upgrade their > > browsers? Well as I said before - it's one way to drive Opera sales. > > Oddly enough, Opera, Mozilla and Apple do not think it is unusual for them > to add new features to their products and hope that existing users of > previous version of those products upgrade to the new releases. In fact, > when we researched this, we discovered it was standard industry practice, > and a good way to stay in business. So it is to drive Opera sales? > We wouldn't really have to worry about back-compat at all if it wasn't for > Microsoft stalling IE development, I got upgrades to IE just last week, I saw lots of jobs on the IE team advertised last week - in fact they're recruiting more than Opera - doesn't look stalled to me - so what's the point of worrying about it now? Jim.
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