On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, David Latapie wrote: > > > > It's the first really open, collaborative community that has taken on > > a task of this magnitude > > AFAICR from Daniel Glazman’s ParisWeb 2006 conference, before W3C, > IETF [HTML WG] was really open too -- problem seemed to be it was too > much open, but I don't know enough of Web history. So WHATWG may be > called the “*second* really open, collaborative community”. Or, to > put it in a more optimistic light, a “‘back to the origins’ > movement.”
That's a fair point, actually. The IETF has done a good job of being open. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'