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Stephen Crocker on standards: IETF & RFCs

I agree that, as of right now, FBML is a scary, under-specified, bag of hurt. I wish I could find myself surprised that the Facebook developer base is happily using it, but... I can't.

"known" uri schemes...

"On this point, I have to call B.S. again. That a document is served as text/html does not make it HTML. Much less does it make it not XML. If a document satisfies the BNF grammar and the various well-formedness constraints, it is XML, whatever you call it. It may also be HTML, and perhaps other things as well."

This approximates the types of standards I think a certain vocal group of folks are interested in making.

RFC 5322, released October 2008 is now the most up-to-date reference point for the Internet Message Format.

Webkit now completely passes the Acid3 test, first browser engine to pass the entire test. There are three parts to the test, smooth animation, final score and the reference rendering. Webkit had passed the previous two but was lagging behind in the animation area but they've finally tackled the animation issues in the latest nightlies. Congrats!

Not really sure wha the animated GIF is supposed to show... other than the fact that the vertical spacing on the W3C site looks like crap in compability mode.

Yahoo! pulls a Microsoft - taking a developing spec and renaming it for their own use. It is not really a win for anyone.

Summary of "cool" and "uncool" ideas in both specs. Don't wholly agree with either category of analysis but I have funny feeling this document will be referenced a lot in the early stages of the HTML WG.

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