Mark: It's also unfortunate and incorrect to say "the w3c forked this". This plan was fleshed out on public-script-coord and you've been part of the evolution of the proposal ever since. I don't understand what, if anything, you're objecting to.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Robin Berjon <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17/04/2013 17:56 , Mark S. Miller wrote: > >> Hi Anne, promises were already in progress for ES7. It was the w3c that >> chose to fork the effort rather than participate and provide feedback. >> > > Just to be crystal clear here, the W3C hasn't done anything at this point. > DOMFutures currently only exist in a WHATWG spec. Given W3C's close and > cosy relationship with WHATWG though, I certainly expect groups to start > using it pretty much immediately so I understand if you might see that as a > distinction without a difference. > > Having said that, the only reason we're collectively having what might > amount to a form of turf war is because we're all tilling the same turf, > and despite having goals that are overwhelmingly the same we're doing so > from somewhat distant houses. > > I don't think that Anne's comment stemmed from some form of imperialistic > view of W3C taking over everything (that's not quite like him :), but > rather simply intended to point out that it would be simpler if we did all > of this under a common roof. Indeed, we can make plans for coordination as > we just did, but coordination happens because there's a disconnect. > Removing the disconnect can be helpful too. > > I have no idea what the politics of such a rapprochement would look like, > and I can certainly imagine a variegated spectrum of modalities for it. I > just want to point out that if there's interest, there are people over here > happy to help make it happen. At the end of the day we just want a better > platform with the minimum cost in bureaucracy. > > -- > Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon > >
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