Dave wrote: > The credibility of the W3C is critically important to its survival
Agreed. > I think the W3C will put its credibility at serious risk if it > publishes a Recommendation for a DRM format Of course it also puts its credibility at risk if it publishes a Recommendation for something that UAs cannot implement for legal reasons. In any case, there are credibility issues here no matter what. See <http://dbaron.org/log/2006-08#e20060818a>. > Treating draft versions of standards, even ISO ones, as final versions > to bring software to users faster is not a disaster It can be if the draft becomes widely-enough deployed that it becomes a de-facto standard. This is especially a problem if the draft is unclear or self-contradictory and a particular implementation's quirks become de-facto standard. Then everyone else has to reverse-engineer, defeating the entire point of having a standards organization. > because software is so easily upgraded. You mean browsers? They're not _that_ easily upgraded. See the IE6 usage figures. And content is nearly impossibly to upgrade on any sort of large scale. > Web Fonts are fast becoming a web standard, after a decade of > anticipation from many publishers and users. Mozilla was founded and > built up a reputation for promoting and innovating around web > standards, and it ought to maintain that reputation. For "useful" web standards (of which @font-face might well be one), yes. But at this point there's all sorts of stuff coming out of the W3C that has little to nothing to do with the Web. If David's blog post above didn't make that point, see all the stuff that's in the DOM "because it's not just web browsers that need to use the DOM". There's a whole lot of server-side Java heritage in the DOM specs. This is not to say that @font-face shouldn't be implemented, if the legal issues and such are resolved. But to be honest, saying "there's a W3C spec that says so" just doesn't mean much nowadays. Even if you ignore the fact that a lot of W3C stuff is pretty irrelevant to the Web, it doesn't help that there are W3C Recommendations that contradict each other... -Boris _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout
