On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Rick Faircloth <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm just complaining about the age-old browser incompatibilities and having > to add mobile development into that mix.
Well, the former is nothing new and, frankly, the latter is an easier bunch to deal with because the mobile browsers are a) a subset of existing desktop browsers and b) as a whole are more advanced than the "majority" position on the desktop. > I'd love to hear all the browser vendors announce Dream on :) > please explain why it takes 14 years to develop a new standard? There is > something wrong with this picture... It doesn't really, which is my point. Ground-zero to "Recommendation" stage is ~6 years and it will hardly change after that as it goes through all the additional rounds of review and voting. Creating a specification as broad in scope as HTML5 is a massive undertaking. Specifications have to be very detailed, consistent, complete... That takes a lot of work, a lot of discussion, a lot of review (and a lot of careful writing). You also have to get consensus between a LOT of stakeholders. Without a clear, written standard to work toward, browser vendors aren't going to have any compatibility target so vendors can't really drive this process outside of the standards world, since it is the vendors themselves who disagree in the first place, which is why a standard is needed. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:345723 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
