- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 19:37:11 +0000 (UTC)
- To: olafBuddenhagen@web.de
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 olafBuddenhagen@web.de wrote: >>> >>> 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? > > I want the working group to carefully distinguish between reasonable > things, that give a considerable benefit at an acceptable cost, and > silly ideas that only add unnecessary complexity. We do. Maybe our opinion of what is silly is different, though. :-) >>> 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? > > Because of cost. Not every browser vendor has such an enormous manpower. Mozilla and Opera both have _extremely_ small development teams. If I recall correctly the core rendering engine team at Opera is no more than 6 people, and it is about the same number of people for Mozilla. And this covers everything: SVG, CSS, HTML, XML, plugins, events, DOM, forms, HTTP, cookies, javascript, etc. Anyway, I would recommend being more specific in your criticisms. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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