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>Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: > > FWIW. I will say that the DOM had *huge* conflicts as well, and > > in retrospect, it amazes me that the DOM 1 specification came > > out as well as it did. I think this is a tribute to Lauren Wood, > > the chair, and to the people on the working group that were > > willing to compromise enough for consensus, but not enough to > > totally pollute it. Nobody said consensus was easy -- there's quite a few of us running around with battle scars, inflicted both publicly and privately to prove it. But as Gavin says, as long as the compromise doesn't leave the end result completely ineffective (and unfortunately I believe it has on at least one occasion), the struggle is genuinely worth the results. Ann Chief Geek, WebGeek Inc. http://www.webgeek.com/ Now in print! XHTML By Example http://www.webgeek.com/books/ What's on my mind? http://www.snorf.net/blog/
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