- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:28:13 +0200
- To: "Manu Sporny" <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: "W3C TAG" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:38:46 +0200, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > This does not appear to be a problem. It seems much more problematic > to adopt a "first-to-file" system of solving problems, where later > attempts to solve a problem better are blocked by someone else having > already attempted to address it. This problem would be made somewhat > worse by the fact that people within the W3C can fast-track their own > solutions and produce a deliverable much faster than an outside party > can. > > If the W3C does not wish to back multiple technologies, it should > avoid pioneering in new spaces, and instead wait for the market to > choose a winner before stepping in. (I don't think this is a very > good idea, mind you, but I believe it's the best solution if we insist > on only supporting a single solution to a problem.) +1 This happened (though got resolved satisfactory) with forms, HTML media, WAI-ARIA attempting to use a hyphen rather than a colon, captioning, and most recently with events. There are probably a few cases I forgot. Each time a lot of time is wasted in debate and each time it is resolved that doing something new, albeit similar, is acceptable and the way forward. And I think in all those cases it was for the better. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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