On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Noah Mendelsohn wrote: > On 10/17/2012 7:57 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > Yeah. Turns out we (the Web standards community) haven't been doing > > such a great job of making our specificatiosn match reality.:-( > > Um, true... but it's also the case that the implementation community > hasn't over the years been doing as much as might be best to make > reality match the specifications. The new specs we're writing now would > like have been a lot thinner and cleaner if they had. At least on the browser front, having been on those front lines for much of my career, I don't really know what more we could have done. But in any case, that's somewhat irrelevant now, since it's too late to ge back and change it. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'