CALL FOR ACTION: THE OPEN WEB NEEDS YOU *NOW*

[Ori Idan]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Aaron Doucette <instantkamera-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> In my opinion, the way to stop this is to write an app for the target
> platform(s), and leave the website to valid, universally supported syntax.
>
> Targeting non-conforming platforms with hacks becomes such a pain in butt
> to maintain, it's almost surely worth the extra effort up front.
>
> That being said, I don't develop apps, nor am I a web dev for a site with
> a large user base. I like to think that if I was, I would tell the ie6
> users and their new-age counterparts to jump in the lake.
>
> -aaron
>

I think the idea of having an app. for every web site, is a step towards
closing the web. The whole idea of open standards such as W3C is to make
the web accessible to everyone regardless of user agent.

-- 
Ori Idan


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>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Thomas Milne <
> thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> Interesting:
>>
>> quote:
>>
>> "The CSS Working Group, the W3C, the browser vendors and the Open Web
>> need you, and I really mean you ALL. The following article is written
>> by Daniel Glazman, co-chairman of the CSS Working Group; the part
>> until "This must not happen" represents an official discussion of the
>> CSS Working Group. Members of the Group behind that discussion include
>> Adobe, Apple, Disruptive Innovations, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla,
>> Opera and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The second part of the
>> article is strictly mine."
>>
>> http://goo.gl/W21G0
>>
>> --
>> Thomas Milne
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