Re: [hybi] HyBi WG update

[Dave Cridland <[e-mail]>]

On Thu Jul 22 01:42:36 2010, Adam Barth wrote:
> This is standard operating procedure for browser vendors.  If we
> waited for specs to stop moving before gaining implementation
> experience, we'd never get anything done.  If you'd like to see how
> this works in practice, I recommend looking over the history of the
> HTML parsing algorithm in HTML5.

FWIW, it's SOP for email and XMPP folk, too, but the difference seems  
to be that we're happy to track changes once a week or once a month,  
and know we're experimentally implementing a known version, rather  
than have new variants of the protocol out every day, which would  
mean you should have no clear idea if you're even meant to be  
interoperating with another implementation.

I think this issue is likely a lot more of an issue with a network  
protocol, incidentally, than with HTML parsing, which I suspect can  
be done in isolation.

Speaking of seeing how this works in practise, I would note in  
passing that browsers have a quite horrible reputation for  
interoperability failure in terms of HTML rendering differences, from  
what I've observed; maybe changing tactics would even be worthwhile  
investigating there.

Dave.
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