- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:44:40 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Cc: mike@w3.org, www-archive@w3.org
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Dave Raggett wrote: > > To develop an effective standard, there needs to be a broad consensus on > requirements and the proposed solution across all of the players. Actually, I'm not convinced that's true, unless you define "all of the players" quite narrowly. In particular, I think the WHATWG effort itself is proof of this -- we certainly don't have a "broad consensus" from "all of the players", if you include players such as those developing XHTML2 and XForms user agents. However, the existing (yet still draft!) Web Applications 1.0 spec ("HTML5") is already effective in getting interoperability between an important set of vendors, and has been implemented and used on a number of sites already. In fact, one could argue that, relative to their states and ages, the current early HTML5 draft spec has been more effective in this regard than the "standard" HTML4 spec, despite the latter having a more "broad" consensus. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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