Re: WHAT WG Takes On Microsoft and the W3C - Any Comments?
Charles Goodwin <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 16:27 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote: > It's not by-invitation-only. Anyone can join. Many dozens of people > already have. You just have to subscribe to a mailing list. > > It's not a W3C alternative. It's just an informal group coming up with > some proposals that can then be submitted to a standards organisation > (such as W3C or IETF) for standardisation. (Other examples of specs > developed in this matter are PNG and more recently Atom.) > > Apple did not "launch" this group, it was launched by Opera and Mozilla. > > Microsoft is not excluded, they are as welcome as anyone else. Indeed at > the recent workshop on Web Applications, Microsoft were one of the few > groups that indicated interest in the work. > > http://whatwg.org/ Thank you for clarifying that Ian. It was a little concerning to here the words 'invitation only' and good to have it debunked before a false rumour spreads. -- - Charlie Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> Online @ www.charlietech.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org