RE: Renewed W3C DOM activity

"Jelks Cabaniss" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dom.wdf
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Grant Mackenzie wrote:
> http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/admin/charter
> Just when you thought w3c had lost the plot...

...

> Why was work on these stopped in the first place.
> Probably because IE was a dead browser with a frozen DOM 1-2
> implementation 

Wonder if Microsoft will be on that Working Group ... 
 
> Why bring them back from the dead.. Probably because of AJAX
> popularity. 

Indirectly, yes.  More directly, I'd say it's likely because of the WHATWG
-- I talked with a W3C official back in early September who was obviously
nervous and embarrassed about the WHATWG.  

Seems the WHATWG gave the W3C a much-needed reality check.


/Jelks



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