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Well, the current Internet pendulum has swung to nearly the polar opposite of federated services, much to the dismay of my inner software-libre graybeard. Even
by isomorphic 12y ago
Well, the current Internet pendulum has swung to nearly the polar opposite of federated services, much to the dismay of my inner software-libre graybeard.
Even a duopoly (!) would be preferable to a single vendor.
- frabcus 12y agoBitbucket is extremely good these days!
- agumonkey 12y agoTrue, I was asking this in a topic about systemd vs set of old protocols. It seems that where the universe is headed right now.
- digi_owl 12y agoI seem to recall that IEEE or some such have a rule about there being 2 independent implementations of a spec before they consider it complete.
- Macha 12y agoW3C at least has this.
- lmm 12y agoHow did CSS 2 with its zero implementations ever happen then?
- Macha 12y agoCSS 2 predates the rule. The initial drafts of CSS 2.1 on the other hand, were published in 2002, yet it was 2011 by the time it became a full reccomendation despite having been in use for a long period by that stage. CSS3 colors (i.e. rgba() etc.) also became a full recommendation on the same day. > Two months earlier, in March of 1998, CSS 2 had become a W3C Proposed Recommendation (PR) which meant that it was considered "done" and was simply awaiting a procedural W3C member review and vote. For all practical purposes, nothing else was going to get fixed in CSS 2. There wasn't a Candidate Recommendation (CR) phase back then, as evidence by the fact that no-one (including my Tasman team as part of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 for the Macintosh) was able to implement CSS 2 as specified. The problems in CSS 2 were far more severe than mere errata - we had to develop a full revision to fix it. http://tantek.com/2011/160/b1/css-2-1-css3-w3c-open-web-standards-practices-learned http://tantek.com/2011/160/b1/css-2-1-css3-w3c-open-web-stan...