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Other web standards experts worried about HTML 5

More web standards experts have begun expressing worries about the direction HTML 5 is currently going. Roger Johansson, writer for the excellent 456 Berea Street blog, has written a few posts on the subject. From one of the posts: “What is currently going on in the W3C HTML Working Group is very disappointing and something I never expected to see when I joined it. I was naive enough to think that everybody joining the HTML WG would be doing so out of a desire to improve the Web. Unfortunately, that does not seem to be the case”

Check out the posts and comments in the following links:

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2 Responses to “Other web standards experts worried about HTML 5”

  1. Tony Says:

    June 8th, 2007 at 15:20 UTC

    This is depressing stuff. Short of joining The System and immersing oneself in the ever-more-inexplicable decrees of the W3C WGs, is there anything that can be done about this?

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  2. David Hammond Says:

    June 8th, 2007 at 17:45 UTC

    Joining the group and participating in the discussion isn’t a difficult process. Just follow Ian Hickson’s instructions.

    I’m part of the working group, although I haven’t had much free time lately to participate in the rapid discussion, which is why I’ve just made a few public blog posts on the subject.

    Posted using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Linux.