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pfraze on July 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell

If I were ever involved in a standards process, my gut feeling is that I'd want working code for all serious proposals. Does that seem feasible?

Perhaps the WG would produce a set of use-case prototypes which proposals are built on.

ivarkotnik on July 26, 2012 [–]

Or at least require each and every voting member to implement the standard in a freely chosen programming language. On second thought... Might not work so good for large standards as HTML5 though, writing your own parser, renderer and layouter :)

rfugger on July 26, 2012 | [–]

Or maybe only browser makers should be deciding what HTML is?

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