On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:34 PM, David Bruant <bruan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/10/12 Alex Russell <slightly...@google.com> > >> I feel like there's as PSA we should write over on webplatform.org for >> library authors about how to not be future hostile. >> > Some context for those who wouldn't have followed. > > The W3C, major (western?) browser makers, > Are there major browser *engine* makers not represented? AFAICT, most of the teams building HTML/JS/CSS engines are stewards (and many people have worked hard to make sure that's true!). > Nokia, Facebook, HP, Adobe (and probably others?) [1] have launched a new > documentation platform this week called webplatform.org > It's a wiki (based on MediaWiki, which is Wikipedia's engine). I think the > content is CC-BY-licenced (though I haven't found the confirmation on the > website itself). > WebPlatform.org is in alpha stage for now [2]. > > Since it's in such an early stage and it's not really well-known and > well-established, is webplatform.org the right place to do a PSA as you > suggest? > Do you have a different suggesetion? It's hard to think of a place that will predictably see more traffic from folks writing libraries and such in the future. We can always add such a thing to the new ES wiki, I suppose. > Dev evangelists could just write blogposts on the topic. It would have > much more impact in my opinion. > > The level of cooperation and coordination of the different actors around > webplatform.org has been impressive. Until webplatform.org reaches a > sufficient level of maturity, maybe there is something to leverage if we > want any sort of PSA to be efficiently received. > > David > > [1] http://www.webplatform.org/stewards/ > [2] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:FAQ >
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