Movement at the Station

Sam Ruby has been appointed as Co-Chair of the W3C HTML working group

Sam will take over from Mike Smith early 2009, Mike will move back to his old position of staff contact.

Rumblings from the intellectual bowels of a number of WHAT WG teamsters have surfaced on IRC and one on Sam Ruby's blog

Fears on the IRC
jgraham: I guess Sam already has quite strong ideas about how the spec should progress so it might be interesting at least
Lachy: indeed. That's my concern about appointing him

read it

MR last week sez: lachy would prefer a weak, compliant or disinterested HTML WG co-chair, stormy weather ahead for the good ship Hixie?