Why we need to get parental supervision in HTML5

Look I Searched for Geek in a Beanbag and Got a Linux Guy. Go figure!

Stephen Shankland, from CNET news reported today that the people behind the actual specification of HTML5 are experiencing some “growing pains”. He goes on to say that they are using juvenile smack phrases and generally disagreeing with each other about some minor semantics of the specification.

I hate to say it but I used to be a UI designer with some of these types of guys in a software dev team. It doesn’t surprise me at all. I’ll try not to be too mean here but when all you do is sit in your cave and write ethereal code, I think you become really attached to it in the same way that Golem loves “his precious” . That’s why, as a designer/developer (a less endowed coder) who get’s out in public, does not have a bean bag for a desk and who gave up playing with my Linux quite a while ago for sexier things and is content to keep doing Flash sites until the uber-geeks figure it out; I’m glad Apple, Adobe and Google have stuck a stake in this.

Without some corporate structure, this HTML5 spec will faff along like a whimsical dream. The pressure you are seeing from these companies to push the spec is likely the only thing that will bring it to us in the foreseeable future. It will also get the fur flying with the guys making the spec. You’re seeing that now.

Read Stephen’s Article here.

It’s probably only fair to reference the unsuspecting Linux geek that I piked the photo from here.

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