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Re: W3C declares HTML5 standard complete

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I imagine you don't play browser games.

I imagine not that many people would care if they turned into HTML5 Canvas games. Nothing kills a laptop battery or spins the fans like BS flash browser games.

> I imagine not that many people would care if they turned into HTML5 Canvas games.

Presumably, the developers still making Flash games would, since HTML5 Canvas has wider reach than Flash, yet they still use Flash.

Re: W3C declares HTML5 standard complete

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Yes, actually. We'd encourage the HTML working group to do original work. Many W3C working groups do that, e.g. the webapps working group worked on web components and various other specs, and it helps the web platform.

So they should reinvent the wheel when there are good solutions out there? Isn't the whole point of standards to stop that sort of thing happening? I get that you may feel that someone is just appropriating your work rather than doing their own but if your aim is to build a standard then reusing things is probably going to be part of doing that.

No, they shouldn't reinvent the wheel at all. They should reference the WHATWG specs, like they do IETF and Ecma specs.

There's no "reusing" going on here, just plain old copying-and-pasting.

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