- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:39:06 +0100
- To: "Dailey, David P." <david.dailey@sru.edu>, "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>, "Dr. Olaf Hoffmann" <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:25:45 +0100, Dailey, David P. <david.dailey@sru.edu> wrote: > On Sat 12/1/2007 9:48 AM Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > >> Our Design Principles require compatibiity with existing content, so >> we can't remove existing functionality. > It wasn't clear to me that our design principles "require" anything. > Quoting from http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/ > 1. These design principles are an attempt to capture consensus on design > approach. They are pragmatic rules of thumb that must be balanced > against each other, not absolutes. > and > 2. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in > progress. This stuff is also in the charter and it's pretty obvious by now what the constraints are for evolving HTML. Is it really necessary to make such e-mails? I think it would be better if you stated why you disagree with the constraint rather than starting a "flamewar" on whether or not the design principles require anything (I agree that they don't, they simply illustrate our constraints, and therefore it comes down to the same thing). -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
Received on Saturday, 1 December 2007 15:38:28 UTC