James M Snell wrote:
I do believe that participation in this discussion is optional, as is
choosing whether or not to support any particular IETF draft
(informational or otherwise) so there is absolutely no need (or desire)
for you to waste your time here.
Nonsense. You know very well that
2006/11/28, Robert Sayre:
Nonsense. You know very well that projects I work on will get bug
reports on standards compliance if you change something. So, yes, I do
have to waste my time here. Since I maintain autodiscovery code people
actually use, you'd think my opinion would count for
If the Atom/RSS autodiscovery spec describes how to
work with the link element to achieve feed
autodiscovery in browsers and other clients, isn't it
an application of (X)HTML rather than an attempt to
specify (X)HTML?
My thinking was that we're accomplishing a task
similar to the creators of the
Rogers Cadenhead wrote:
My thinking was that we're accomplishing a task
similar to the creators of the Robots Exclusion meta
tag [1] -- put X values in element Y to achieve effect
Z.
Hmm, have to disagree. The behavior is already well-documented, so this
isn't accomplishing much. This
--- Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there some aspect of the WHAT-WG document that
bothers you?
Not yet, aside from the notion that they've got an
incredibly ambitious goal -- spec the next
HTML/XHTML/DOM -- and I have no idea how to gauge the
likelihood they'll achieve it. Or whether
On 11/28/06, Rogers Cadenhead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have no idea how to gauge the
likelihood they'll achieve it. Or whether they'll
respect current autodiscovery functionality in MSIE 7
and Firefox 2.0.
My experience is that the IETF is essentially unresponsive to backward
compatibility
On Nov 28, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Robert Sayre wrote:
They already know how, in general. The WHAT-WG is the place to work
out edge cases in HTML semantics.
Over the course of history, a remarkable number of different groups
have jumped up and down and said *We're* the ones defining HTML!!!
On 11/28/06, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 28, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Robert Sayre wrote:
They already know how, in general. The WHAT-WG is the place to work
out edge cases in HTML semantics.
Over the course of history, a remarkable number of different groups
have jumped up and down
At 6:16 PM -0500 11/28/06, Robert Sayre wrote:
On 11/28/06, Rogers Cadenhead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have no idea how to gauge the
likelihood they'll achieve it. Or whether they'll
respect current autodiscovery functionality in MSIE 7
and Firefox 2.0.
My experience is that the IETF is
