Re: Please explain the role of the W3C in the continuing development of HTML

On 25 February 2011 03:26, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Danny Ayers wrote:
>>
>> At the other end of the scale, at the 'living spec' end, what safeguards
>> are there to prevent a single vendor setting the agenda with the
>> features it has in the pipeline?
>
> They're all always trying to do that. That's what competition is about.
> This happens regardless of the spec (indeed, it happens even without
> specs). It's not a problem specific to the "living standard" model.

But with a versioned spec there is a finite boundary for a particular
version, and while a single vendor may still dominate there's only
going to be room for features A, B and C. With a "living standard"
it's open-ended, a single vendor can continually influence the
trajectory by proposing features D, E, F...


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Received on Friday, 25 February 2011 07:57:03 UTC