- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:07:09 -0800
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Thanks Larry. I understand what you're getting at now. Unsurprisingly, I agree more with Robert's point of view than yours. :) Adam On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> wrote: >> Maybe this is off-topic for this list, but I've seen this notion of >> over-specification being anti-competitive raised before. Can you >> explain why that is specifically? > > http://masinter.blogspot.com/2010/01/over-specification-is-anti-competitive.html > > Not entirely off-topic, but we've been encouraged to keep > discussion to particular issues rather than general > principles, so I think talking about the general issue > should be done elsewhere. (www-tag@w3.org would be OK with > me since I think it's a general architectural principle for > specifications and not just specific to HTML5.) > > The particular issue was ISSUE-56 > > http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8207#c6 > and > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/56 > > The implementations of URI processing that I've seen in the > past don't match the specific algorithm that used to be in > the HTML5 document, and I'd like some evidence that the > change proposal: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Nov/0670.html > is actually "woefully inadequate" for anything. > > (reminder http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8207#c6 ) > > Larry > -- > http://larry.masinter.net > > > > >
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