2009
HTML5 Evolution
by xibe & 1 other
Google’s role is not free from the perception of conflict of interest, and that coupled with Ian’s endorsed role as a dictator will affect the credibility of the outcome produced. In particular, it will give Microsoft all of the excuse it needs to avoid implementing the standards. (Not that eliminating that excuse will magically cause Microsoft to participate…)
2006
a[ping] : a WhatWG enhancement in Firefox
by tehu (via)
(Ian Hixie) : The idea is that in future we would make the status bar indicate that URIs would be pinged (so it would not be secret -- it would be more obvious to the user than it is now, in fact), and, on the long run, to provide prefs (at least hidden prefs that extensions can hook into) to make this opt-out.
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