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The Acknowledgement section of the HTML5 spec has the following line: Special thanks and $10,000 to David Hyatt who came up with a broken implementation of the adoption agency algorithm that the editor had to reverse engineer and fix before using it in the parsing section. This is both unnecessary and unprofessional. The HTML5 draft is a W3C specification, not a personal weblog. Remove this line.
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Ian, this isn't a book, and you aren't an author. This isn't your personal work. Let me repeat that--this isn't your personal work. If you want to indulge in personal jokes in your Twitter account or web site, cool. If you want to write a book, go for it, and indulge all the in-jokes you want. This is a specification for HTML by the W3C and the WhatWG. I don't want to have to push this to be an issue, because everyone will just be embarrassed by it. And I mean, everyone. I'll give you a few days to think on it before I escalate it to an issue. I suggest you talk to some of the more mature members of the WhatWG IRC.
Oh forget it. If you don't have the sense to see why this is inappropriate, I'm not going to waste all of our time.