On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote: > Indeed, I noted this earlier. The behavior HTML5 codifies is the behavior > that the majority of browser vendors have asked me to codify. >
Majority, huh? Which vendors? How does the behavior they ask for correlate with what their browsers do? At ECMAScript, the committee has representatives from the main browsers. ECMA works on consensus, not majority, so we get to codify only what all the players agree on. This discipline has repeatedly saved us from standardizing something unnecessarily complex. Cross-browser legacy is generally assumed to be constrained only by what the main browsers agree on (though there are exceptions), giving us some room to clean up areas where existing browser behaviors differ. -- Cheers, --MarkM
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