Re: [encoding] Last Call Comment: Chances of deployment

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 10:41 AM, "Martin J. Dürst"
<duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
> Well, one part of the comment is that I'm explicitly asking the WG, because
> the WG, and later the W3C as a whole has to be able to stand behind this
> specification.

Given how even "stable" specifications like XML get drastic changes,
can you really trust that?


> As with respect to the actual content, I notice that during the time of its
> existence, because of the fact that development of Opera >=12 (Presto) got
> discontinued, and because, as far as I'm aware, no other browser version
> changed their code tables, the amount of compliance actually decreased.

Yeah, I would like to study your data. This seems like something we
want to address somehow.


> Now such a decrease may be just a short-term thing, or it may be not. When
> do you think that browser makers such as Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Apple,
> Opera and others will change their implementations?

I know Google has made changes for more complex encodings. Mozilla has
focused on compliance with regards to labels and encodings exposed to
content. I expect that to continue. Probably with Apple and Microsoft
dragging behind due to their tight OS integration for this stuff.


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