→ @The thing is if a standard is broken in some way you can always build a new one. That's the nice thing about standards: so many to choose from.
And I think I have enough confidence in W3C's processes to ensure we get something okay.
kaniini@Elizafox These people deal with MICROSOFT. The people whose mantra is EMBRACE, EXTEND, EXTINGUISH. And somehow the web remains an open platform.
Seriously, this is not the mountain to die on. It really isn't.
Ꮢ๐ϲoᴄo Ⅿoԁｅm Ᏼaｓіliｓk@Elizafox
I'm not sure any W3C standard has ever been "okay".
I mean, sometimes a W3C standard is strictly better than its typical non-compliant or marginally-compliant implementations, but that's because the bar is very low.
*cough*SMIL*cough*
@Elizafox
Like, somebody could write a spec to do what OStatus does, and make it sane. But, such a spec would never get W3C standardization.
For one thing, it probably wouldn't involve XML, which would kill it in the water.