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I didn't really know how to fit "The following extract shows how a messaging client's text entry could be arbitrarily restricted to a fixed number of characters
by varun_ch 5y ago
I didn't really know how to fit "The following extract shows how a messaging client's text entry could be arbitrarily restricted to a fixed number of characters, thus forcing any conversation through this medium to be terse and discouraging intelligent discourse." into a title.
- slater 5y agoTo me, that sentence sounds more like someone with a chip on their shoulder, and oddly unprofessional for an organization like WhatWG. (edit: n.b., not calling you out)
- fivelessminutes 5y agoTo be fair the fact that's all we had to say, due to a character limit also on HN, proves the article author's point very nicely.
- kragen 5y agoProfessionals never could have achieved what WHATWG did; professionalism was responsible for the catastrophic pre-WHATWG logjam in W3C. What WHATWG needed was a hacker. And it wasn't an anonymous "someone"; it was specifically Hixie.