- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 11:08:56 +0300
- To: www-qa@w3.org
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/
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