After a day or so of having asked for input from #webdev #webdesign #UX #a11y and other folks who were working and participating during our emergence in terms of #WebStandards and #OpenWeb I'm rather overwhelmed with the strange and unexpected results. This thread will clarify.

The goal of my ask was to see who would pop up out of curiosity or passion or interest in that time to help me expand my own thinking beyond the experience of having been engaged in a very complex series of engagements withThe Web Standards Project and our various task forces.

Responders have fallen into several camps. The first are the people who immediately see an opportunity to share their experiences. This is of course the delightful part, where I see passion for such topics alive and well but living isolated, without a community focus.

The second camp when we look at #browser wars and the #WebStandards #Standards #WebStandardsProject era of focused action is "I wasn't on the inside, so I have no voice." This confounds me as it is the expansion away from my incessant voice to be INCLUSIVE of many voices! Speak!

A third camp of response is very disappointing to me and I fear perhaps it is my framing of the challenge and the topic of the time that's causing confusion. The pushback is "that will just unbury the dead" where we choose to not revisit our history as it can be painful and dark.

That camp of "leave the #browser wars" era and the fight for #standards much less the community that was fostered across the globe also thinks this is a combative message because I can be combative. Nothing. Is. Further. From. The. Truth. It is learning I seek. NOTconflict.

I still have the Open the Web text content saved