Problems at the W3C 303
dustin writes "Public outcry against the workings of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is growing. On Sunday, Björn Höhrmann announced his departure in a lengthy critique of problems at the W3C. Web standards champion Zeldman adds his comments as well: 'Beholden to its corporate paymasters who alone can afford membership, the W3C seems increasingly detached from ordinary designers and developers.'"
Open version of W3C? (Score:4, Funny)
Needs some competition (Score:2, Funny)
What we need is to open up the standards market and encourage some commercial competition between standards. Standards that cannot create a profit will go out of business, whilst new, more profitable standards will reign supreme. With 100 standards competing for developers and corporate sponsors, us web developers will get the choice of the semantic swimming pool that serves each of us best. Personally I always thought that the sexual overtones of 'head' and 'body', and especially 'foot' had no place in a standard, so I'll be renaming them to 'first', 'second' and 'third'.
Re:Wrong Problem (Score:5, Funny)
What a letter! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I never understood.. (Score:5, Funny)
Fox in the hen-house was quite apt.
Re:Wrong Problem (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah. What part of "Linux Is Not UniX" did they not understand?
;-)
on a tangential note.. (Score:3, Funny)
Björnnnn! [sluggy.com]
Re:Wrong Problem (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, you just pulled that distinction out of your ass! That's not allowed!
Huh. Jeffrey Zeldman linked to my blog. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wrong Problem (Score:2, Funny)
So obviously they are totally different. Noob.