Comments on: HTML5 Process http://community.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/archives/2009/06/09/html5-process geek tools and the scholar Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:35:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: darcusb http://community.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/archives/2009/06/09/html5-process/comment-page-1#comment-1784 darcusb Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:04:43 +0000 http://community.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/?p=648#comment-1784 <p>It's really the height of frustration to be encouraged to contribute to the list discussion (after Ian and I chatted about it over email), to have put hours into crafting what are pretty reasonable technical arguments, to only have every single one of them dismissed by someone who admits he knows nothing about the domain in question. </p> <p>What's even more surprising to me is that there appears to be no checks-and-balances in the process. Ian may be a smart browser engineer, but that shouldn't given him quasi-dictator status for such an important spec, with such far-reaching implications for the future of the web.</p> It’s really the height of frustration to be encouraged to contribute to the list discussion (after Ian and I chatted about it over email), to have put hours into crafting what are pretty reasonable technical arguments, to only have every single one of them dismissed by someone who admits he knows nothing about the domain in question.

What’s even more surprising to me is that there appears to be no checks-and-balances in the process. Ian may be a smart browser engineer, but that shouldn’t given him quasi-dictator status for such an important spec, with such far-reaching implications for the future of the web.

]]> By: Tony Scott http://community.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/archives/2009/06/09/html5-process/comment-page-1#comment-1783 Tony Scott Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:49:04 +0000 http://community.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/?p=648#comment-1783 <p>In answer to your final question, and after following with astonishment some of the twists and turns of the HTML5 group, it has to be 'no'.</p> <p>Disclaimer: I'm one of many members of the HTML5 group, but have issues with the way it is being chaired.</p> In answer to your final question, and after following with astonishment some of the twists and turns of the HTML5 group, it has to be ‘no’.

Disclaimer: I’m one of many members of the HTML5 group, but have issues with the way it is being chaired.

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