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Revolution and/or evolution
Evolution and/or Revolution?
Hĺkon W Lie
CTO Opera Software
March 2, 2005
Terminology
evolution
backwards-compatible change
revolution
non-backwards-compatible change
W3C today
specifications often introduce new paradigms
working groups close after producing Rec's
Rec's are not maintained...
... while the world evolves
W3C does not describe how the web works
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Why is this?
maintaining specifications isn't glamorous
writing test suites takes lots of time
who cares?
publish and perish
What should we do?
realize that current HTML-based designs will live long
allow maintenance to take place
allow revolutions to be planned
Viva la Revolución!
Viva la Evolución!
Viva la Revolución! Viva la Evolución!
