Re: Answer to Ian Hickson: Formal vs prose language normativity

On May 16, 2005, at 04:17, Ian Hickson wrote:

> In fact, the fact that developers would be blocked when the prose
> contradicts the formal language is a *good thing*. If one is 
> arbitrarily
> picked as the one they must follow, there is a 50% chance that they 
> will
> invest time and effort into implementing the wrong one, possibly 
> without
> even raising it as an issue (after all, "the spec is clear"). Then when
> the error is fixed, there is a 50% chance that they will have to 
> rewrite
> their implementation -- and a high probability, in practice, that they
> will not, leading to conflicting implementations and bad 
> interoperability.

I agree with Hixie. Stuff like what's described in
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2005May/0002.html
is seriously uncool.

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Received on Monday, 16 May 2005 08:09:39 UTC