Non announcement _here_ is one thing, sure; but as those aiming to plan, test and measure different approaches, it's your role to research other developments out side of the WHATWG bubble.
WHATWG does not exist to be a closed society. On 17/05/2012, at 6:46 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: > > On May 16, 2012, at 10:39 PM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: > >> >> I agree that there's no obligation. And I agree that if people here >> didn't know about the existence of the CG then of course it's not >> surprising that we didn't engage with the work that was happening >> there. >> >> However I was under the impression that that wasn't the situation >> here. So while I agree that there was no obligation, it also doesn't >> seem surprising to me that the people in the CG were unhappy/upset >> with the resulting outcome. > > > I didn't know about the respimg CG until a few days ago (after a couple of > days of discussion of responsive image proposals, and months after Ted first > posted his image-set proposal to www-style). Checking after the fact, I could > find no mention of the term "respimg" or anything else uniquely identifying > the community group in the archives of wha...@whatwg.org or public-html, and > no one from the CG that I asked had a recollection of announcing it here. > That's the basis for my assumption that most people here didn't know about > the CG while it was working on its proposal. Do you have a basis for assuming > otherwise? > > REgards, > Maciej >
