- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:29:13 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- cc: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, URI <uri@w3.org>, IETF Discussion <ietf@ietf.org>
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Noah Mendelsohn wrote: > On 10/17/2012 7:57 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > Yeah. Turns out we (the Web standards community) haven't been doing > > such a great job of making our specificatiosn match reality.:-( > > Um, true... but it's also the case that the implementation community > hasn't over the years been doing as much as might be best to make > reality match the specifications. The new specs we're writing now would > like have been a lot thinner and cleaner if they had. At least on the browser front, having been on those front lines for much of my career, I don't really know what more we could have done. But in any case, that's somewhat irrelevant now, since it's too late to ge back and change it. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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