public dump

It's common knowledge that Google's Ian 'hixie' hickson is partial to taking a dump in public (except when he deems it politic to give a private performance to his vendor boys), recent events have revealed a disturbing escalation in this pathology:

dump > step

So let me re-ask my question: if a browser vendor has an installed base of greater than "a percent or so", and they flat-out state they will not implement, e.g. all the new input types in HTML5, will you take them out of the spec?

Hixie sez:Yes.
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meanwhile opera hair brain little jimmy has a disturbing realization

web forms 2 & CANVAS etc. - fuera aqui! fuera aqui!

* jgraham wonders what happens if Microsoft announce that they will never support CANVAS or that they will never replace their non-tree-like DOM
jgraham: hober: afaict Hixie's arguments about requiring vendor consensus means that we would have to either a) get everyone else to agree to the IE model or b) leave a big chunk of the parsing mechanism unspecified
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Mr last week sez: Hickson hands microsoft a loaded gun. We wait for the shot to be heard around the web standards world.

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