- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:11:51 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Brad Neuberg wrote: > > Another idea, which isn't appropriate for the WHAT drafts since they are > mostly hashed out, would be to have a bake off where people simply implement > and submit proof of concept implementations of improved web APIs; think of it > as an X-Prize for web APIs, where the goal is defined but the exact way to > achieve it is not (and no ten million dollar prize ;) We already have that -- many of the features in the Web Apps 1.0 draft were implemented in UAs before being put in the spec. (For example, <canvas>, XMLHttpRequest, contentEditable, and the Window interface.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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