And Now the Fun Begins

Submitted by Shelley on Sun, 08/02/2009 - 13:38

And with this email, the HTML WG now officially has two published branches of the HTML 5 specification.

My first reaction when I saw this email? What a clusterfuck.

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Michael Kozakewich (not verified)

Sun, 08/02/2009 - 15:23

Is it official, or are they still trying to work out differences? I tried reading through the thread, but it seems the mailing archives are next to useless.
There's no "all mails in this thread" to click on, so I had to scroll through the whole of August (which has just begun, thankfully).

From what I read, they were trying to settle their differences, and went from five specs to two. Has JF's proven too hard to crack, and so it was officially raised as a second version? Or will there be a vote, soon, in the event that differences can't be worked out?

I think the biggest problem I've seen on the mailing lists is that people usually address each-other as if they were getting personal emails, rather than treating the entire working-group mailing list as one big pool of inter-related data. People should at least scan every message that comes through.

Shelley

Sun, 08/02/2009 - 15:26

No, it seems as if this vote will be official.

I think putting out a separate document was premature, and jumped the gun. And Sam has conflated the issue so much, you don't know what you're voting on.

Badly managed is the least of what I can say about all of it.