- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:17:37 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Elliotte Harold wrote: > > I fully expect to be revisiting this whole mess in 5-10 years to come up > with a real spec, after we've seen which of the experiments succeeded > and which failed. Then again maybe we'll just decide that specs don't > matter, and live with whatever browser vendors choose to implement. That's actually exactly the process we are following. Spec things that we can justify and can get experimental implementations for, try to get more implementations, remove stuff that fails in the market place. That's one of the reasons the timetable for HTML5 has the work planned to continue until at least 2022. For details see the FAQ: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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