Wow....what did I miss? On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 11:13 -0400, Peter Boughton wrote:
> My reply to Rick was not condescending, since to be so requires intent, and > there was none. > > My aim with all my responses to this list is to be helpful and try to make > the web a better place. I try to write replies keeping in mind that the post > may well be used as a reference by others - erring on the side of lack of > knowledge is usually the better option since you never know who might later > be reading it, in addition to the person being responded to. > > > At time of writing, the post was four times the average post length, and > followed on from a focused reply of "I want continuous updates; that's what > you've got" to wandering across the whole spectrum of the topic being covered > here. That constitutes long and rambling for me, and - in case you missed it > - that line was terminated with a big fat tongue, to specifically suggest the > tone to interpret with. > > I'm not sticking my head in the sand, I'm doing the complete opposite: I'm > saying "take some time to read about HTML5 from authoritative sources, and > you'll see it really is becoming all the things you want - a continuous > standard that the browser vendors are actually working towards implementing; > we really are in a better place than ten years ago". > > I never said we should not be pressing for better browsers - I very much > dislike *all* browsers; they all suck in different ways, (and I'd love to > have the resources to do something about that). > > And yes, these days, even Microsoft have actually been making efforts, with > IE9 - it's still far from perfect, but compared to previous versions it's a > great improvement. > > If there's any particular or general view which you (or anyone) feels I have > missed, please feel free to re-iterate it and I'll address it directly. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:345905 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
