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Re: XHTML 1.0, section C14

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:24:19 +0000 (UTC)
To: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
Cc: www-html <www-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0611260020160.8145@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Shane McCarron wrote:
> 
> Let's all roll over and keep using 1997 technology and hacking around 
> using weird-ass abstraction libraries to implement "Web 2.0" (gag-me) on 
> top of incompatible underlying implementations [...] In my world I 
> always personally ignore */* in the accept header.

Assuming the first part of the above is supposed to be sarcastic and the 
second part is not, I'm confused. You're condemning people for not 
following the standards ("incompatible underlying implementations") while 
simultaneously admitting to doing the same yourself?

Standards compliance begins at home.

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Received on Sunday, 26 November 2006 00:24:35 GMT
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