On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, L. David Baron wrote: > > I think there are legitimate arguments on both sides of the dispute over > proprietary plugins. For them, there is the argument that they help > promote innovation in the Web platform by competing with it from within, > and help address needs that are too small to be met by the general > tools. Against them, there is the argument that dependence of Web > content on proprietary plugins lowers the ability to innovate and > compete in the OS and hardware markets (because users are locked in to > the platforms on which popular proprietary plugins are available) and > takes away users' freedom to use access the Web with whatever software > they choose or to write software to do so. > > I think this debate belongs more in blogs and on mailing lists than > within examples in a specification.
I've removed the example based on this rationale. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
