- From: Matthew Wilcox <elvendil@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 18:36:32 +0000
- To: juancarlospaco@ubuntu.com
- Cc: "Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com" <mtanalin@yandex.ru>, www-style@w3.org
@Tab "Because we always have" is not good enough. Sorry, I'm wading in here with my newbie boots, but do you realise how incredibly off-putting the technology and systems the W3C use for communication are to people wanting to get involved? Even for people as passionate and committed as me, it's an incredible battle to get involved. I don't think it's a good argument to keep the status quo that "it works for now". Horses worked fine too, but we invented the car because it was better. The rest of the web are driving cars and the W3C is sitting in it's horse-drawn-carriage causing irritation with the general population who are sharing the same roads and wondering what's going on. The 'friendly on phone' thing is a false argument. Get a forum theme that's light-weight. Done. I also don't think that one specific and rare use case is much of an argument to hold back what would be a massive improvement for the majority of use cases.
Received on Thursday, 5 January 2012 18:37:00 UTC