February 22, 2009
HTML 5 Reality
Great quote from Ian Hickson during the discussion on Rob Sayre’s reduced-scope spec:
> You’re the dictator. Am I reading the WHATWG process wrong?
Apparently. A dictator, by definition, has total power. I have nearly no power; I am contrained by legacy content, by the whims of implementators, by rational and logical argument, by the needs of authors and users, and by research.
On another note, Anne van Kesteren links to an awesome CSS thread which provides much opportunity for facepalming to any pragmatists reading.