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Does anyone have any insight as to why the W3C has taken over 10 years to converge on the spec for rounded corners? Any info more than just "bureaucracy"?
by jseims 15y ago
Does anyone have any insight as to why the W3C has taken over 10 years to converge on the spec for rounded corners? Any info more than just "bureaucracy"?
- th0ma5 15y agoyou really do have to properly vet these things. i didn't realize the work involved either until i started following the rdfa spec. beyond the bureaucracy (which is actually pretty good, like a software development process) there are unintended use cases and side effects, and the concept needs to be as complete as possible and not self-contradictory. there must also be prior art to be researched and understood and incorporated wherever possible as to not throw out good ideas with an off-the-cuff implementation. second, it is actually done sort of slowly, and with your input if you want, and you can start to use a lot of the core features of drafts, just like a beta program.
- mbrubeck 15y agoWhile I the W3C CSS WG does take a long time to produce standards, I should point out that "border-radius" is in fact finalized already, and is supported without a vendor prefix in Firefox 4+, Chrome 4+, IE 9+, Opera 10.5+, and Safari 5+.