- From: Ambrose Li <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:06:52 -0400
- To: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: Www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On 11/04/2008, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > Ambrose Li wrote: > > > This was exactly the problem Garrett was raising originally, viz. that the > > way the spec is currently written is going to ensure (or rather has > > resuted in) incompatibility, or "divergent implementations". > > > > Well... There are already divergent implementations (as in any reverse > engineering scenario). I'm not sure why we're blaming a still-a-draft spec > for incompatibilities that have been around for years. Garrett has already explained this in detail. The incompatibilities did not exist until the draft was written; the draft was the cause of the incompatibilities. This is not a normal reverse engineering scenario. -- cheers, -ambrose The 'net used to be run by smart people; now many sites are run by idiots. So SAD... (Sites that does spam filtering on mails sent to the abuse contact need to be cut off the net...)
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