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Looks like they want RDFa, microformats and Canvas (2D) to be stripped: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0349.html http://lists.w3.org/Ar

by bonaldi 17y ago

Looks like they want RDFa, microformats and Canvas (2D) to be stripped: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0349.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0349... and http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2010Feb/0002.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2010Feb/0002...

mcav 17y ago
Adobe seems to think that those three things aren't related to HTML5. That may or may not formally be the case, but HTML5 without canvas is so much less.
- bensummers 17y ago
  HTML5 without canvas needs something like, er, Flash!
- ZeroGravitas 17y ago
  So what's the real story here? My wild guess is that Microsoft is making noises about implementing more of HTML5. If Adobe gets Canvas shifted out of the spec that radically reduces the chances of it being implemented in IE. edit: or, "As a First Public Working Draft, this publication will trigger patent policy review." Is Adobe trying to keep patents on Canvas under wraps?
  - Hixie 17y ago
    No idea what the "real story" is here, or if there is one beyond what they've said. There's no patent review issue here, though, since the canvas stuff has already been published as FPWD by the W3C HTML working group in the HTML5 spec itself. Thus Adobe is already bound by the patent policy on this stuff.
radley 17y ago
It appears that representatives from Google and Opera are the ones playing politics: At least two members of this team, Ian Hickson[1] and Anne van Kesteren[2], representing Google and Opera, respectively, have been writing this morning that Adobe is officially blocking publication of HTML5. This type of communication could cause FUD among the community of users, and should be addressed as soon as possible.
- deleted 17y ago
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- gjm11 17y ago
  How does it appear that they are playing politics, rather than (say) that Larry Masinter (representing Adobe) is playing politics by claiming that canvas etc. are out of scope for the WG? Other participants in the email discussion linked by the parent have said that these things have already been determined to be in scope for the WG. Larry Masinter says otherwise. I have no inside information or expertise and do not propose to try to resolve that dispute :-), but the claims being made by (it seems) everyone other than Larry Masinter seem plausible prima facie.
  - radley 17y ago
    We don't know the full debate. Masinter's actions, even if completely wrong, still fall within the process. In contrast, posting inflammatory comments on one's blog does nothing more than fuel more fanaticism.
    - radley 17y ago
      ...and lead to massive karma drop for anyone willing to refute the HTML5 fanatics...
- bbatsell 17y ago
  If publicizing an Anonymous Hold™ by a corporation with a vested interest in neutering HTML5 is now called "politics", then I want to be a fucking politician.
  - sriramk 17y ago
    Everyone has a vested interest in every standard they participate in :-).
- radley 17y ago
  re Ajaxian: http://ajaxian.com/archives/adobe-html5-standards-blocking-and-the-evil-of-the-private-backroom#comments http://ajaxian.com/archives/adobe-html5-standards-blocking-a... It relates to the whole RDFa vs Microdata argument, which itself is being used as a proxy for the W3C vs WHAT-WG power struggle. RDFa is the W3C’s solution for embedding meta-data into HTML, whereas Microdata is Ian Hixon’s baby. The W3C working group recently voted to split Microdata out of the HTML5 spec, something that Hixon, as editor, was not pleased about. He did it for the W3C spec, but not for the WHAT-WG, thus meaning the two specs are no longer in sync. Whoever is right, Ian Hixon’s opinion should be only be considered in light of his personal stake in this issue, and his often demonstrated disdain for the W3C and its processes in general. Portraying the W3C as a secretive, compromised organisation helps to drive people toward the WHAT-WG. Of course, the WHAT-WG, being a smaller, invitation-only group of browser vendors, is in many ways more opaque than the W3C, it just lacks some of the bureaucracy around it.
wmf 17y ago
This process has been going on for how many years, and now they want to declare Canvas out-of-scope? It seems like the time for such complaints is long past.
- jdelsman 17y ago
  Corporations will always find time to complain ;-)
jjs 17y ago
Looks like they want [...] Canvas (2D) to be stripped Perhaps that Flash-not-needing paint demo made them sweat!

by bonaldi 17y ago

mcav 17y ago

Adobe seems to think that those three things aren't related to HTML5. That may or may not formally be the case, but HTML5 without canvas is so much less.

bensummers 17y ago
HTML5 without canvas needs something like, er, Flash!
ZeroGravitas 17y ago
So what's the real story here? My wild guess is that Microsoft is making noises about implementing more of HTML5. If Adobe gets Canvas shifted out of the spec that radically reduces the chances of it being implemented in IE. edit: or, "As a First Public Working Draft, this publication will trigger patent policy review." Is Adobe trying to keep patents on Canvas under wraps?
- Hixie 17y ago
  No idea what the "real story" is here, or if there is one beyond what they've said. There's no patent review issue here, though, since the canvas stuff has already been published as FPWD by the W3C HTML working group in the HTML5 spec itself. Thus Adobe is already bound by the patent policy on this stuff.

radley 17y ago

It appears that representatives from Google and Opera are the ones playing politics: At least two members of this team, Ian Hickson[1] and Anne van Kesteren[2], representing Google and Opera, respectively, have been writing this morning that Adobe is officially blocking publication of HTML5. This type of communication could cause FUD among the community of users, and should be addressed as soon as possible.

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gjm11 17y ago
How does it appear that they are playing politics, rather than (say) that Larry Masinter (representing Adobe) is playing politics by claiming that canvas etc. are out of scope for the WG? Other participants in the email discussion linked by the parent have said that these things have already been determined to be in scope for the WG. Larry Masinter says otherwise. I have no inside information or expertise and do not propose to try to resolve that dispute :-), but the claims being made by (it seems) everyone other than Larry Masinter seem plausible prima facie.
- radley 17y ago
  We don't know the full debate. Masinter's actions, even if completely wrong, still fall within the process. In contrast, posting inflammatory comments on one's blog does nothing more than fuel more fanaticism.
  - radley 17y ago
    ...and lead to massive karma drop for anyone willing to refute the HTML5 fanatics...
bbatsell 17y ago
If publicizing an Anonymous Hold™ by a corporation with a vested interest in neutering HTML5 is now called "politics", then I want to be a fucking politician.
- sriramk 17y ago
  Everyone has a vested interest in every standard they participate in :-).
radley 17y ago
re Ajaxian: http://ajaxian.com/archives/adobe-html5-standards-blocking-and-the-evil-of-the-private-backroom#comments http://ajaxian.com/archives/adobe-html5-standards-blocking-a... It relates to the whole RDFa vs Microdata argument, which itself is being used as a proxy for the W3C vs WHAT-WG power struggle. RDFa is the W3C’s solution for embedding meta-data into HTML, whereas Microdata is Ian Hixon’s baby. The W3C working group recently voted to split Microdata out of the HTML5 spec, something that Hixon, as editor, was not pleased about. He did it for the W3C spec, but not for the WHAT-WG, thus meaning the two specs are no longer in sync. Whoever is right, Ian Hixon’s opinion should be only be considered in light of his personal stake in this issue, and his often demonstrated disdain for the W3C and its processes in general. Portraying the W3C as a secretive, compromised organisation helps to drive people toward the WHAT-WG. Of course, the WHAT-WG, being a smaller, invitation-only group of browser vendors, is in many ways more opaque than the W3C, it just lacks some of the bureaucracy around it.

wmf 17y ago

This process has been going on for how many years, and now they want to declare Canvas out-of-scope? It seems like the time for such complaints is long past.

jdelsman 17y ago
Corporations will always find time to complain ;-)

jjs 17y ago

Looks like they want [...] Canvas (2D) to be stripped Perhaps that Flash-not-needing paint demo made them sweat!