- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:26:59 +0000 (UTC)
- To: olafBuddenhagen@web.de
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 olafBuddenhagen@web.de wrote: > > Speaking of "core teams" is misleading. It doesn't change the fact that > you need several dozens of developers and five years to create a > full-featured web browser that is terribly slow, implements only a > fraction of W3C standards, and is terribly buggy with others. Yes; as I mentioned in another e-mail on this thread, this is the same as for other application plaforms, such as desktop GUIs (Win32, Gnome, MacOSX), macro-enabled office suites (OpenOffice, WordPerfect), database systems (DBase, Paradox), etc. This is not really that surprising. It also takes hundreds of people to make a good video game these days. Or a high quality feature film. Why is this particularly a problem? >> Anyway, I would recommend being more specific in your criticisms. > > There is no point in being more specific in DOM or CSS criticism on a > HTML list. Please point out the specific problems in the appropriate lists. Only that way can we fix them. > As for XHTML 2, I've already mentioned the things that give me a > headache: XForms and XInclude. Oh, and <nl> of course, if I really > wanted to implement it the way it is described in the standard. > Otherwise, the current draft is really nice in terms of implementation > cost. I agree XForms is a problem, and that XInclude (due to its dependence on XPointer) is non-trivial. <nl> seems reasonably simple though, especially given a technology like XBL or HTCs, which any browser aiming to be an application platform really has to implement anyway. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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