Hello,
> Wow, so many mistakes in such a short paragraph.
>
> It's not by-invitation-only. Anyone can join. Many
> dozens of people
> already have. You just have to subscribe to a
> mailing list.
Ian allow me to quote from your very own website:
**Membership is by invitation only**, and consists
of a number of representatives from various browser
manufacturers. This group, which is referred to as the
members, currently consists of:
* Brendan Eich
* David Baron
* David Hyatt
* Håkon Wium Lie
* Ian Hickson
* Johnny Stenback
* Maciej Stachowiak
Source: http://whatwg.org/charter
> It's not a W3C alternative. It's just an informal
> group coming up with
> some proposals that can then be submitted to a
> standards organisation
> (such as W3C or IETF) for standardisation. (Other
> examples of specs
> developed in this matter are PNG and more recently
> Atom.)
Well, spin it as you like. The WHAT WG is a W3C
alternative. It's not endorsed by the W3C. It's not
using the W3C process and so on.
Also as you note you keep your option open for
future standardisation at W3C or IETF or ECMA or
wherever you feel like you get the best reception.
> Apple did not "launch" this group, it was launched
> by Opera and Mozilla.
Well, I understand that Apple doesn't want to
endorse the WHAT WG. However, at least two founding
members of the WHAT WG are full-time Apple employees
(e.g. David Hyatt, Maciej Stachowiak?). Again, spin it
as you like.
Why not help out with the affiliation of the
founding members:
* Brendan Eich - Mozilla Foundation
* David Baron - ??
* Håkon Wium Lie - Opera
* Ian Hickson - Opera
* Johnny Stenback - ??
> Microsoft is not excluded, they are as welcome as
> anyone else. Indeed at
> the recent workshop on Web Applications, Microsoft
> were one of the few
> groups that indicated interest in the work.
Yeah, for sure. Isn't the point of the whole
exercise to move the web forward even though Microsoft
has frozen Internet Explorer and boycotts W3C
standards such as XHTML, SVG, XForms and so on. Again,
spin it as you like.
- Gerald
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