- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:27:31 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Orion Adrian wrote: > > "Say, 2 years for specification, 3 years before adoption by all common > browser engines, and another 5 years before the majority of users have > upgraded. That adds up to 10 years. Could be better, could be worse, but > you're talking about many years in any case." > > [...] > > If anyone thinks I'm going to put up with a sloppy system for a decade, > then I'm just going to stick with Microsoft which doesn't seem to have > this problem. Really? It's been about 5 years since Avalon started being developed, it'll be another year before it's released (assuming no more setbacks), and it'll take at least 4 years for Avalon to be widely distributed enough to be usable as a development platform. That's 10 years. Compared to most industries, 10 years from initial planning to ubiquitous distribution is absolutely amazing. In some industries it can take 50+ years to go from R&D to widely used product. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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