PUBLIC MARKS from tehu with tag ianhickson

Z : C'est une première avancée à mettre à l'actif des supers Zamis du HTML5.

Hixie : Ha mais non ! Je n'ai fait que répondre au mail en dessus de pile. J'attends toujours votre courrier.

The document is currently over 930 pages when printed "letter" size. The first complaint I get from implementors wanting to review the specification is that it is unreviewable: too long, to complex, too difficult to review individual sections, too difficult to find the definition of terms, or where things are used.

L. Masinter, J. Downdell, Matt May (ex W3C) - ces jours-ci, le front anti-html5 vient d'adobe.

John Dowdell en raccourci : Flash a placé la barre tellement haut que forcément ça fait des jaloux. Et ce Ian Hickson, ça serait-y pas un peu l'Antéchrist ?

Plus intéressante est la réaction d'Isofarro (#3), qui ressitue le contexte et l'origine du what-wg.

Ian Hixie ?

(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.

The serial spec writer and front leader of WHATWG goes to Mountain View. Who's next ?

Ian Hixie : "Ajax what's this? Stop changing names when I turn my back!"