- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:39:43 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, fantasai wrote: > > Is that because the fixing is taken out of your time or because you're > fundamentally opposed to making changes that don't hit your arbitrary > magnitude-of-benefit threshold (whatever it is)? Both. Too often in the last 7 or so years of being involved in specifications have I seen someone think he was making an editorial change when in fact he was making a fundamental change to the meaning of the spec. Every editorial change looks innocent and harmless, but the more you make, the more likely you are to break something. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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