Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Silly old W3C

Hixie gets on his soapbox again to deride the W3C in his usual condescending style:
Instead of having a meeting once a week where decisions are made, we have a mechanism where editors respond to feedback asynchronously, and so meetings are unnecessary for progress.

For instance, in the HTML5 work, we've had a strong preference toward making decisions based on research and reasoning, whereas there's a history in the W3C of deferring to domain-specific experts. So, for example, where previously a spec writer would just ask an expert what the right behavior should be and get an answer as if from an oracle, now we try to reason out what the right answer should be based on testing implementations, doing studies to find out what Web authors and users are actually doing, and so on.

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mr last week sez: what a fucking wanker!

mrs last week sez: mr last week that is outrageous! he's not a fucking wanker! he's a wanking fucker
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Here Comes Sickness

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't get it Mr Last Week? What's wrong with requiring everything to be scrutinized by requiring research to be presented prior to something going into the spec?

Ps: can you ask Ms Last Week if she would be willing to post a few sexy pictures of herself on this blog? I mean, the music videos are great and all, but instigation with suggestive photography would just mix so well IMO.

Jean-Baptiste Clamence said...

nuthin, but don't portray it as sum kind of detached review process, decisions are made by one person and his view of what is correct.

re: mrs last week - fuck off you perverted prick.

Anonymous said...

The "domain-experts" remark is apparently a defensive response to this,
where the term also appears.