On Jun 2, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Sam Ruby wrote:
Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
Hi Leif,
Your response takes the tone of a conspiracy theory. Things like
your use of the word "hegemony" and your apparent belief that the
Design Principles are an elaborate plot against the profile=""
attribute make it hard to evaluate or respond to your feedback.
In the past you've lumped Rob Sayre in the same "hegemony" as Ian,
yet Rob has stated his strong opposition to many of Ian's actions
as editor, and even wrote an alternate HTML5 draft that makes
different decisions on what features are in or out.
I can assure you that the Design Principles were not written with
profile="" in mind. As one of the editors, I personally do not care
either way about profile="", and I've certainly not made it my
mission in life to stamp it out. In fact, if it were up to me, I
would make use of profile="" conforming, if only to remove the need
to argue about it further.
I suggest you resubmit your feedback without the conspiratorial tone.
I also take exception to the use of terms like "hegemony" (hey: am I
in on it too?), but would also like to add that public-html is
intended for technical discussion. People have a hard enough time
keeping up with the bandwidth as is, meta-discussion such as this
one should be taken off list, possibly copying www-archive in order
to allow others to see and/or refer to it.
My apologies for the poor choice of forum.
My substantive point stands - I'm not going to take a conspiracy
theory seriously as feedback.
Regards,
Maciej
