Hey WebApps Group,
I am happy to see people scared (much like me :)). If CFC is just for
public *working* draft, then I think I was unnecessarily worried and thanks
Robin for helping me out here.
I am fine this going for public working draft and hence get reach more
people/community for review.
Hey Robin,
LINQ is a hard one to push as LINQ again ties back to Microsoft only
(single vendor). As a Microsoft employee I am super excited about LINQ, but as
standards advocate LINQ is not the right one. Unless Microsoft puts some
effort in standardizing the LINQ and promotes few other vendors go for it (much
like ODBC), I would not vouch for it in web standards. On the other
hand, I have heard of efforts in having LINQ like stuff in Java.
On the positive front, I am glad to work with people to find an
alternative here that is widely acceptable. I will come back on that later.
Thanks,
Laxmi
-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Berjon [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 6:34 PM
To: Laxmi Narsimha Rao Oruganti
Cc: public-webapps; Pablo Castro
Subject: Re: CfC: to publish the First Public Working Draft of Web Database
spec; deadline 7 September
Hi Laxmi,
just to make sure that we are clear on what you are objecting to: the
CfC is for a Working Draft (what's more, the first) to be published.
This by no means entails ratification by W3C, it simply reflects where
the group is on that topic.
This is not to say that you shouldn't object, I am just indicating
that you can dislike this specification and still agree that it can be
published because it'll grant it wider review than what it has today
(and perhaps spur someone into proposing something better before this
ships). I personally agree with your objections, but I'm okay with
this draft being published because I'd really like browsers to have an
advanced form of storage, and since I think SQL is the wrong option
for this I'm hoping it'll scare someone into offering a better
alternative.
I am curious: given that you care about the right option being
selected here, have you considered proposing LINQ as an option for the
WG to work on (or a subset thereof)? Having a positive proposal can go
a long way in terms of shaping a specification.
--
Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/
