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 More options Feb 19 2009, 5:10 pm
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From: sayrer <say...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:10:27 -0800 (PST)
Local: Thurs, Feb 19 2009 5:10 pm
Subject: Re: Moving past last call for HTML5
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On Feb 19, 4:51 pm, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote:

> An alternative approach, the one which the WHATWG (and by extension the
> editor's draft in the HTMLWG) has been using, is to use the "vote with
> your feet" approach: things that aren't implemented or used get thrown
> out, things that _are_ implemented or used get adopted. For new features
> this means that browser vendors have, as a group, the ability to veto
> anything, but that's true anyway, whether we admit it or not.

This is not quite right. Browser vendors with sufficient market share
have an ability to effectively veto new features by themselves,
especially if those features can't be emulated with existing
technologies. HTML5's model of adding features that anyone implements
(SQL, registerContentHandler, etc) overstates the ability of that
vendor to add something to the Web. This demonstrably applies to all
WHATWG participants, but not all W3C WG participants.

- Rob


 
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