- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 15:35:33 +0000 (UTC)
- To: olafBuddenhagen@web.de
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 olafBuddenhagen@web.de wrote: >>> >>> CSS is funny in that it was created as part of trying to clean up >>> HTML but is being driven by marketing driven feature creep. >> >> There's actually very little marketing force behind CSS right now. > > Indirect marketing force. I'm on the working group, work for a browser vendor, have worked for another browser vendor, and have worked with CSS in those contexts for several years. I can't actually think of a _single_ case where a marketing department has in any way affected the CSS specs. > Authors want to do silly things like :first-letter, and marketing wants > to satisfy these silly wishes... I'm confused; you want the working group to _not_ address author wishes? (And note that :first-letter was actually introduced in CSS1, long before CSS came to the public eye. I doubt marketing wanting to satisfy authors had anything at all to do with :first-letter being in the spec.) >> And the CSS group is the only group to be truly looking for dual >> interoperable implementations before releasing a CR spec to PR, which >> is making it even harder for the specs to be poor. > > Well, this should help a lot; but it doesn't really solve the problem. > What does it help when Mozilla and Opera prove that something is > possible, if no other browser (except maybe IE, if they wanted to) is > able to implement it? If two UAs can implement it, why would a third not be able to? -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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