- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:06:12 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Dan Brickley wrote: > > > > Isn't this the problem the Candidate Recommendation stage is supposed > > to address? Having serious CR phases, where we aim for two complete > > implementations of the entire specification (including all optional > > parts, and with no bugs, and with a comprehensive test suite written > > with the intent of finding every last edge case bug) seems like it > > would avoid the problem of doing things poorly, or at least reduce the > > likelihood to the point where it would be rare enough to not be enough > > to justify adding syntax-level support for routing around such > > problems later. > > This would be nice. Can you suggest any inspirational precedents for a > comparably-complex technology? It's basically what we've been doing with CSS, to good success. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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