- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:23:50 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: tina@greytower.net, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, www-html@w3.org
Henri Sivonen wrote: > > The WG is having a formal survey about adopting WHATWG HTML5 as the > > *starting point*. > > http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/htmlbg/results > > Quoting the announcement by Dan Connolly: "A 'no' vote in this survey is > > a formal objection. An individual who registers a Formal Objection > > should cite technical arguments and propose changes that would remove > > the Formal Objection." I find this a very disturbing statement. Taken at face value, it appears to say "We are going to adopt WHATWG HTML5 as the starting point whether you like it or not. If you don't like it, your only option is to propose changes to WHATWG HTML5 to make its adoption as the starting point acceptable to you. You do not have the option of saying simply "No, I think that WHATWG HTML5 is fundamentally flawed and is totally unsuitable as a starting point". Thus if Henri's citation of Dan Connolly is correct (and I have no reason to believe that it is not), then the entire thing is already sewn up and the so-called "formal survey" is nothing more than window dressing to give credibility to a decision that has already been taken /in camera/. I sincerely hope that there is some flaw in my logic, and that the adoption of WHATWG HTML5 as the starting point is not already W3C policy. Philip Taylor
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