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Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Ian Hickson Weighs In

David Hyatt (Safari developer, Apple employee): "Ian Hickson comments on Apple's HTML extensions and points out that all of the solutions suggested so far are inappropriate. I'll be eagerly awaiting the responses of both Tim and Eric to this entry. Ian also takes Apple to task for inventing new tags without discussing them in a standards forum first. I think Ian has gotten his wires crossed a bit. For whatever reason, he (and others) are equating a beta release of Tiger with a shipping release of Tiger. Until Apple actually ships Tiger, then we have not yet extended HTML. What you see in the Tiger beta is a proposal. The syntax of these tags is not frozen, as is evidenced by the fact that I'm willing to move them into a completely different namespace! The documentation delivered to Dashboard authors during WWDC even warns that the syntax of these tags has not yet been finalized. To criticize Apple for not discussing the syntax of tags prior to releasing a piece of beta software is unfair. We are willing to discuss these elements in an open forum like the WHAT-WG. You can see our proposal for canvas and for the new form controls, since we released the complete source of these extensions in WebCore-146, and anyone can download it to view the current APIs. I believe we are being quite open in our process regarding these extensions." Thanks Kyle.

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