Re: [whatwg] Joe Clark's Criticisms of the WHATWG and HTML 5

2006-10-29 Thread Anders Rundgren
It is equally interesting that W3C intends to start a new browser authentication WG but have excluded digital signatures and key provisioning from the charter in spite of the fact that about 10M people today have to use proprietary browser-plugins in order to get their work done. Maybe an answer

Re: [whatwg] Joe Clark's Criticisms of the WHATWG and HTML 5

2006-10-29 Thread Henri Sivonen
(Sent both to the WHAT WG list and to Joe Clark himself, because I assume he doesn't subscribe to the list.) On Oct 29, 2006, at 06:33, Lachlan Hunt wrote: I thought Joe Clark's opinions and criticisms of the WHATWG and HTML5 might be of interest to people here.

Re: [whatwg] Tim BL's HTML WG announcement and WHAT WG

2006-10-29 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Karl Dubost wrote: What will be interesting to see if they all perl, python, C, Ruby, etc. libraries will follow this model once it is defined. It would be good I guess for the new WG to gather implementation experience, not only in desktop browsers but also in all applications consuming or

[whatwg] Lack of standard for digital signatures [was Joe Clark's Criticisms of the WHATWG and HTML 5]

2006-10-29 Thread Michael(tm) Smith
Anders Rundgren [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2006-10-29 14:38 +0100: It is equally interesting that W3C intends to start a new browser authentication WG but have excluded digital signatures and key provisioning from the charter in spite of the fact that about 10M people today have to use proprietary

Re: [whatwg] Tim BL's HTML WG announcement and WHAT WG

2006-10-29 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:04:46 +1000, J. King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:16:44 -0500, Charles McCathieNevile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was at least one major issue in WF2 that came out from actually *implementing*. What was the problem? Default values for