You KNOW it's gonna suck for me the day I die. I'm gonna be in that deathbed yelling 'THERE ARE STILL NO STANDARDS' and shaking frail fists.
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@mollydotcom would like to understand how are there no standards well before that day plz :) you have my email/skype/dm and so on...
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@briankardell You're a semanticist. Tell me the meaning of "standards" please.
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@mollydotcom not trying to be - seems in a world where billions things agree on meaning of code + SDOs, "there are none" needs explaining.
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@briankardell Which standards do you follow?
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@mollydotcom I'm involved in a number of them as were you, which is why I'm confused/say I need more in order to understand the comment.
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@mollydotcom is my question really difficult to understand?
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Replying to @briankardell
@briankardell Is mine? "Web Standards" is a marketing term, Brian. Specifically to help express to non-professionals some idea of quality.

Nov 30, 2015 路 9:10 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
@mollydotcom trying to figure out how to make this non-circular in nature, language is complex. Standards are agreement-between who matters
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@briankardell Standards have existed long before Web. Web standards shouldn't ever really be like tech standards lest we obfuscate "open."
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@mollydotcom for me the only 'quality' they infer is that they are implemented, interop & have the same basic 'don't break the web' pressure
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@briankardell I refuse my writing and thinking of yesterday to ever stand for what I think right now. Why I retired 15 years of my blog.