- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 13:16:03 -0800
- To: "Thomas Reardon" <thomasre@MICROSOFT.com>, "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>, "'www-talk@w3.org'" <www-talk@w3.org>
Thomas Reardon wrote: > Thanks for playing Erik. Next? My turn. It was my impression that the HTML and Style lists were places where those not officially in the web standards business could make constructive comments, suggestions, and criticisms that would be considered and responded to by those with power to act on them. Thomas Reardon and Chris Wilson have proven me right on many occasions. They've engaged in public discussion, publicly admitted mistakes, corrected and enhanced their product, and - I believe - even changed their stance on CSS1 standards due to input from the lists. Unlike representatives of the 'N' word, these guys are obviously listening and seem to really give a damn about the quality, usability, and even interoperability of what they're creating. No doubt MS products have good, bad, and ugly* aspects (and there's little consensus which is which). But when there's movement in an inarguably positive direction, criticisms should be composed with some concern for the feelings of those working hard - perhaps against competitive instincts - to make things better.** David Perrell * sometimes attributed to spaghetti code ** note: this suggestion is subject to reinterpretation if CSS1 support is crippled in IE4
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