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17th December 2007 - Link Blog

The future of web standards. Nice analysis from James Bennett, who suggests that successful open source projects (Linux, Python, Perl etc) could be used as the model for a more effective standards process, and points out that Ian Hickson is something of a BDFL for the WHAT-WG.

Posted 17th December 2007 at 1:16 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 17th December 2007.

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